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The Safe rate of 2.58 percent is the 20-year treasury bond rate as of November 24, 2017. The equity risk premium of 5.5 percent is recommended by KPMG as of September 30, 2017 (Weimar et al. 2017, p. 1). The size premium of 11.63 percent is per the Duff & Phelps Valuation Handbook (the successor to Ibbotson) for the 10z decile, which is closest to our company’s market capitalization/valuation (Grabowski 2017, p. 19). The specific company risk of 2.94 percent is per the Highland Global formula…

predictor”—a theory popularized by the stock analyst Robert H. Stovall, after sportswriter Leonard Koppett first discovered that the subdivisions in which the Super Bowl winners belonged to, correlated with the rise or fall of the “Dow Jones Industrial Average” the concurrent year (Fortune). Similarly, the article by The Telegraph assesses the phenomenon…

have an increasing growth for several periods and will drop to the stable growth afterwards. Hence, the first stage of this model would be the increasing phase for 5 years and then followed by the stable growth phase. 5.2. Valuation Input Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) would serve as one of the valuation input for this two-stage DCF model. WACC itself explain…

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According to the estimates available, Arvind will sell approximately 80 million metres of fabric (includes domestic value-added and plain fabrics as well as exports) for the year 1997-98. This is an increase of 8.92 per cent over the last year when it sold approximately 74 million metres of fabric. The trouble is that this growth is too less. Its sales forecast and viability required it to function at 80 per cent of the built-up capacity. That meant an output of at least 100 million metres (of…

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common valuation approach is the discounted cash flow model(DCF). It considers perspectives of all claimholders in the company. Economists define the corporate value as the present value of expected free cash flow of company discounted by its weighted average cost of capital. It is closely related to the financial decision making of the company and reflects time value, risk and sustainable development capacity of corporate. Therefore, approaches to achieving maximization…

The Birth of Bull and Bear Markets as Financial Terms The terms, "Bull," and "Bear" for the state of the market are inspired by the typical way in which these two animals attack in real life scenarios. The bull is generalized to attack by forcing its horns up into the air, symbolizing the upward trend of a bull market. In contrast, the bear is generalized to swing its paws down upon its prey; thus serving as a symbol for downward trends. Stock market conditions are defined commonly either by…

At the end of the 1920s there was a huge imbalance between the rich and the poor: 0.1 percent of society earned the same total income as the bottom 42 percent.6 This imbalance, combined with production of more and more goods and rising personal debt, would soon doom our country. When giving his state of the union address in 1928, President Calvin Coolidge remarked that "America had never been met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time.”7 The next year,…

rates impact the production and would set barriers to export in other countries, such as Africa. • SOCIAL: India population is more than 1 billion and the focus of Nano is to target the bottom of the pyramid, which is around 300 million. By 2020 the average and disposable income will grow significantly and there will be a substantial growth of the middle class. Farmer protests due to subtracted land in Singur led Tata to move the production. • TECHNOLOGICAL: 4 million Tata’s vehicle are running…