Question

Fitzgerald Industries has a new project available that requires an initial investment of $4.7 million. The project will provide unlevered cash flows of $845,000 per year for the next 20 years. The company will finance the project with a debt-value ratio of .3. The company's bonds have a YTM of 6.6 percent. The companies with operations comparable to this project have unlevered betas of 1.14, 1.07, 1.29, and 1.24. The risk-free rate is 4 percent and the market risk premium is 6.8 percent. The tax rate is 25 percent. What is the NPV of this project? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 1,234,567.89) NPV

Answer 1

B C D E Market WACC (Cost value Weights %*Weights) $ 700.7000 10.25% Cost% 14.65% =4%+B13*6.8% 2 Common stock 3 $ 30 0.3000 1.49% 5 Debt (After tax cost) 6 4.95% =6.6%*(1-25%) Total $ 100 1.0000 9 WACC 11.74% 11 12 Average unlevered beta 13 Levered Beta 1.185 =(1.14+1.07+1.29+1.24)/4 1.57 =(1+(1-25%)* (30/70))*B12

Year Cash flow 0 $(4,700,000) 1 $ 845,000 2 $ 845,000 3 $ 845,000 4 $ 845,000 5 $ 845,000 6 $ 845,000 PVIF @ 11.74% 1.000 $ 0.895 $ 0.801 $ 0.717) $ 0.641 $ 0.574 $ 0.514 $ Present value -4,700,000.00 756,228.93 676,783.67 605,684.48 542,054.59 485,109.31 434,146.38 7 $ 8 $ 9 $ 10 $ 11 $ 12 $ 13 $ 14 $ 15 $ 16 $ 17 $ 181 $ 19 $ 201 $ 845,000 845,000 845,000 845,000 845,000 845,000 845,000 845,000 845,000 845,000 845,000 845,000 845,000 845,000 0.460 $ 0.412 $ 0.368 $ 0.330 $ 0.295 $ 0.264 $ 0.236 $ 0.211 $ 0.189 $ 0.169 $ 0.152 $ 0.136 $ 0.121 $ 0.109 $ 388,537.35 347,719.74 311,190.21 278,498.27 249,240.77 223,056.90 199,623.77 178,652.39 159,884.15 143,087.60 128,055.60 114,602.78 102,563.24 91,788.51 NPV $ 1,716,508.65

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