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1) Calculate all of the ratios listed in the industry ratios table for East Coast Yachts. Industry Ratios Ratio Formula Values Answer Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Current ratio current assets/Current liabilities 51,123,050/50,584,750 1.01 0.86 1.51 1.97 Quick ratio current assets-Inventory/Current liabilities (51,123,050-20,149,650)/50,584,750 0.61 0.43 0.75 1.01 Total asset turnover sales/total assets 611,582,000/401,558,750 1.52 1.10 1.27 1.46 Inventory turnover cost of goods…

attained through DCF analysis is higher than the current cost of the investment, that’s an indication of a good opportunity investment. The Weighted Average Cost of Capital is the company’s cost of capital which all of the company’s assets are respectively weighted; bonds, common and preferred stocks, and long-term debts are involved in the Weighted Average Cost of Capital calculation. The Equivalent Annual Annuity is a calculation of the annual cash flow of an annuity investment over its…

measure these averages, especially given the high returns and volatility of the bond markets shown in Exhibits 4 and 5. He was concerned also about which measure of expected returns should be used. Exhibits 4 and 5 present two different measures of average annual return, the arithmetic and the geometric. The arithmetic average return is the sum of the annual returns over the time period divided by the number of years in the time interval. The geometric average return is the compound average…

Case Study: The Impact of Information Technology (IT) on Market Efficiency in the North American Security Markets As discussed in the previous sections, security markets around the world are using information technology in a verity of applications, and they are computerized to different degrees. Prior to Freund and Pagano (2000), there has been little done in terms of studying the impact of using information technology on the efficiency of exchange markets. Also, there were not enough empirical…

The weighted average cost of capital, commonly referred to as WACC, is an important and widely accepted tool for companies to use. WACC allows the company to value future projects and the company as a whole by proportionately weighing each category of capital; because of this a firm’s WACC is dependent on the capital structure of the firm. Investors also use this tool to confirm whether or not companies are worth the investment risk. The higher the WACC, the higher the investment risk of a…

To some people, cars are more than just the sum of their parts. Ever since 1970 the United States Government has been placed crippling restrictions on sports vehicles. On December 2nd, 1970, Congress voted to pass a bill that would establish the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate and standardize the auto industry in order to protect the environment from pollution. From 1970 until now there have been thousands of vehicle emissions and fuel consumption regulations that have put…

correlation of the two stocks are calculated and revealed. Using the result of the closing price minus the opening price to divide by the opening price can figure out the monthly returns during the 5 years in order to obtain the average monthly return. Then, the average monthly return time 12 months that can lead to the annualized return. Afterwards, the standard deviation applies the formula σ=√(∑_(i=1)^n▒〖P_i [R_i-〖E(R)]〗^2 〗) to get the consequence which is required to multiply 12 months to…

Introduction to 3M Corporation 3M Corporation is an industrial conglomerate that develops products which serve propose in a variety of industries. The original function of 3m was mining. Founded in 1902, 3M was originally known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. This firm’s main function was to harvest the mineral corundum, extremely hard aluminum oxide. This mineral is found in a crystalline form. Some precious stones such as rubies and sapphires are some types of corundum. 3M mined…

ExxonMobil products worldwide and is charged with growing the company (“Learn about Natural Gas and Power Marketing at ExxonMobil,” n.d.). Any business decision within each division affects the entire company in many areas including their weighted average cost of capital. The cost of capital has a major influence over a company’s operations and profitability (Easley & O’Hara, 2004, pg. 1553). One way that companies can influence their cost of capital is “by affecting the precision and quantity…

I- Introduction On October 19th 2000, Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric (GE), one of the three leading global manufacturers of airplane engines, announced the $42 billion merger “General Electric 2000 Merger Sub, Inc.” with Honeywell (HON), a rival industrial conglomerate. GE is an American multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. It is the only company listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Index today that was also included in the original index in 1896.…