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Valuation for Mergers, Buyouts, and Restructuring, Second Edition
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Valuation for Mergers, Buyouts, and Restructuring, Second Edition

by Enrique R. Arzac
November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
469 pages
16h 6m
English
Wiley
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Appendix C

Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems

CHAPTER 2

  • 2.1. After-tax cash flow = $135, 000.
  • 2.4.
    1. Applying the comparable EBITDA multiple to Fleet's 2004 EBITDA yields: 56.7 × 6 = $340 million.
    2. Cost of debt = 7%, cost of equity = 4.5% + (1.32)(4.4%) + 3.9% = 14.4%, WACC = 9.27%.

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  • 2.5. Cost of equity = 4.5% + (0.66)(4.4%) + 3.9% = 11.3%.

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  • 2.8.
    • (b)
      Enterprise value $1,198.4 million
      Debt 650.0
      Equity 548.4
      Shares 35
      Value per share $15.67
    • (c)

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  • 2.11. EPS2013 = (0.99)(1.185)5(1.09)5 = $3.6

    Dividend2014 = (0.51)(3.6)(1.04) = $1.9

    Share value2013 = 1.9/(0.10 − 0.04) = $31.7

    Share value2002 = $31.7/(1.12)10 = $10.2.

CHAPTER 3

  • 3.3. Required return on the S&P 500 index: k = 9% + (4%)(1) = 13.0%.
    1. P/E0 = Payout (1 + g)/(k − g) or

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      versus a compound growth rate of earnings during the post-war period of about 2%.

    2. The long-term nominal growth of earnings and dividends would be about (1.02)(1.045) − 1 = 6.6%. Hence,

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      where D0/E0 = 0.614 and P/E0 = 21.2. Solving for k, it ...

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