Automotive industry has been generally considered to be at the maturity stage of the industry life cycle. Which of the following observations is consistent with this argument? Many firms pay zero dividends to shareholders Industry growth rate is similar to the growth rate of the overall economy Product lineup continues expanding with innovations High profit margins attract new entrants   Which of the followings is correct about the capital market line (CML)? Group of answer choices It can be tangent to the investment opportunity set of all risky assets Its Y-intercept is the Sharpe ratio for the market portfolio It is going through the minimum-variance portfolio Its slope is the expected return on the market portfolio     An investor is analyzing two stocks: S1 and S2. The P/E ratio of S1 is 30, and the P/E ratio of S2 is 170. The investor concludes that S2 is relatively overvalued due to its substantially higher P/E ratio. Which of the following information can make this conclusion more convincing? Group of answer choices S1 and S2 have a similar growth potential S1 and S2 have a similar price per share S1 and S2 have a similar dividend per share S1 and S2 have a similar earnings per share

Is the formula for value of unlevered and value of levered  firm always (free cashflow/ WACC - growth rate)  What if in the question, the interest rate is given, is it the same as growth rate and is EBIT the same as free cash flow. What if EBIT is given in the question? Please help, very confused.

Which of the following statements is false?   A.   Real assets generate net-income to the society.   B.   In most societies, resources are allocated not by an all-powerful dictator, but through the combined choices of millions of households and firms.   C.   Liabilities sacrifice future benefits.   D.   Leveraged buyouts (LBOs) are the most common type of commodity investment strategies.

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Question 5 Which of the following is not a pro of DCF valuation?: It's very robust to assumptions about the terminal value. It's insulated from market aberrations. It's especially good for larger, stabler companies as it's based on projected cash flows. It allows for a flexible sensitivity analysis.

Is the following sentence true or false? Please explain.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             The cost of new equity (re) could possibly be lower than the cost of reinvested earnings (rs) if the market risk premium, risk-free rate, and the company's beta all decline by a sufficiently large amount.

What types of firms would we expect to observe higher direct agency costs of equity, such as consuming excessive perquisites by management ?   Question 7 options:   a)  Firms with high free cash flows   b)  Firms with fewer growth opportunities   c)  Firms with weak governance structures   d)  All of the above options are correct   e)  None of the options are correct

Which of the following limits the market from becoming a fully efficient market?   New information takes time to process. Obtaining new information is costly. The existence of closed end investment companies. Both a. and b. are correct. All of the above answers are correct. None of the above answers is correct.

If a firm plans to issue new stock, flotation costs (investment bankers' fees) should not be ignored. There are two approaches to use to account for flotation costs. The first approach is to add the sum of flotation costs for the debt, preferred, and common stock and add them to the initial investment cost. Because the investment cost is increased, the project's expected rate of return is reduced so it may not meet the firm's hurdle rate for acceptance of the project. The second approach involves adjusting the cost of common equity as follows: Cost of equity from new stock = r, D1 +8 Po(1-F) The difference between the flotation-adjusted cost of equity and the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment represents the flotation cost adjustment. Quantitative Problem: Barton Industries expects next year's annual dividend, D1, to be $1.90 and it expects dividends to grow at a constant rate g = 4.3%. The firm's current common stock price, Po, is $25.00. If it needs to issue…

Wolseley manufacturing Co. invests in a group of risky projects, which increases the unsystematic risk of the firm, but does not change the systematic risk of the firm. All else the same, the expected risk premium on its common stock is most likely to: Select one: a. Increase, because the difference between the expected return on the firm's stock and the risk-free rate will widen. b. Increase or decrease, depending on the internal rate of return of the new projects. c. Decrease, because the difference between the expected return on the firm's stock and the risk-free rate will widen. d. Decrease, because the difference between the expected return on the firm's stock and the risk-free rate will narrow. e. Remain unchanged, because the level of systematic risk is unchanged.