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Times Interest Earned (TIE) Ratio problem

The Hr Picket Corporation has a $500,000 of debt out standing and it pays an interest rate of 10% annually. Pickets annual sales are 2 Million dollars and its average tax rate is 30% and its net profit margin on sales is 5%. If the company does not maintain a TIE ratio of at least 5 times its bank will refuse to renew the loan ...continues

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22. Your rich grandfather has offered you a choice of one of the three following alternatives: $10,000 now; $2,000 a year for eight years; $24,000 at the end of eight years. Assuming you could earn 11% annually, which alternative should you choose? If you could earn 12% percent annually, would you still choose the same altern ...continues

Expected Rate of Interest: expectation theory.

Interest rates on 4-year Treasury securities are currently 7 percent, while interest rates on 6-year Treasury securities are currently 7.5%. If the pure expectations theory is correct, what does the market believe that 2-year securities will be yielding 4 years from now?

Expected Rate of Interest and inflation

Suppose the annual yield on a 2-year Treasury bond is 4.5%, while that on a 1-year bond is 3%. k* (=real risk-free rate of interest) is 1 percent, and the maturity risk premium is zero. a. Using the expectations theory, forecast the interest rate on a 1-year bond during the second year. (Hint: Under the expectations theory, t ...continues

Interest Rates

Due to a recession, the inflation rate expected for the coming year is only 3 perecent. However, the inflation rate in Year 2 and thereafter is expected to be constant t some level above 3%. Assume that the real risk-free rate is k*= 2% for all maturities and that the expectations theory explains the yield curve,so there are n ...continues

Default risk premium

The real risk-free rate, k*, is 2.5%. Inflation is expected to average 2.8 perecent a year for the next 4 years, after which time inflation is expected to average 3.75% a year. Assume that there is no maturity risk premium. An 8-year corporate bond has a yield of 8.3%. Assume that the liquidity premium on the corporate bond ...continues

Real risk-free rate of return

You read in the Wall Street Journal that 30-day T-bills are currently yielding 5.55. your brother-in-law, a broker at Safe and Sound Securities, has given you the following estimates of current interest rate premiums: Inflation premium=3.25% Liquidity premium=0.6% Maturity risk premium=1.8% Default risk premium=2.15% On ...continues

Maturity Risk premium

An investor in Treasury securities expects inflation to be 2.5% in Year1,3. 2% in Year 2, and 3.6% each year thereafter. Assume that the real risk-free rate is 2.75%, and that this rate will remain constant over time. Three-year Treasury securities yield 6.25%, while 5-year Treasury securities yield 6.80%. What is the differen ...continues

Calculate fair value premium over market

If ABC Co. makes a tender offer and will not exeed 20% premium, how do you calculate fair value premium over market.

Current cost versus historic cost of debt and equity

In computing the cost of capital, do we use the historical costs of existing debt and equity or the current costs as determined in the market? Why?