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Four months ago, you purchased 900 shares of Turicchi Tours stock for $7.68 per share. Last month, you received a dividend payment of $.12 per share. Today, you sold the shares for $9.13 per share. What is your total dollar return on this investment?

A new customer has placed an order for a turbine engine that has a variable cost of $1.12 million per unit and a credit sales price of $1.64 million. Credit is extended for one period. Based on historical experience, payment for about 1 out of every 178 such orders is never collected. The required return is 2.1 percent per period. What is the NPV per unit if this is a one-time order?

Which one of the following statements is correct based on the period 1926–2019?

Saunders, Incorporated, has decided to produce a new line of shoes that will have a selling price of $68 and a variable cost of $27 per pair. The company spent $187,000 for a marketing study that determined the company should sell 85,000 pairs of the new shoes each year for three years. The marketing study also determined that the company will lose sales of 24,000 pairs of its high-priced shoes that sell for $129 and have variable costs of $63 a pair. The company will also increase sales of its inexpensive shoes by 19,000 pairs. The inexpensive shoes sell for $39 and have variable costs of $15 per pair. The fixed costs each year will be $1.42 million. The company has also spent $1.29 million on research and development for the new shoes. The initial fixed asset requirement is $4.2 million and will be depreciated on a straight-line basis over the life of the project. The new shoes will also require an increase in net working capital of $447,000 that will be returned at the end of the project. Sales and cost projections have a ±2 percent range. The tax rate is 21 percent, and the cost of capital is 12 percent. What is the NPV for the new line of shoes assuming the base-case scenario?

Cool Comfort currently sells 340 Class A spas, 465 Class C spas, and 125 deluxe model spas each year. The firm is considering adding a mid-class spa and expects that, if it does, it can sell 360 of them. However, if the new spa is added, Class A sales are expected to decline to 235 units while the Class C sales are expected to decline to 275 units. The sales of the deluxe model will not be affected. Class A spas sell for an average of $10,700 each. Class C spas are priced at $18,700 and the deluxe model sells for $27,000 each. The new mid-range spa will sell for $13,500. What is the value of the erosion effect?

Stock in Country Road Industries has a beta of 1.62. The market risk premium is 8.2 percent while T-bills are currently yielding 2.9 percent. Country Road’s last paid annual dividend was $1.87 per share and dividends are expected to grow at an annual rate of 3.8 percent indefinitely. The stock sells for $25 per share. What is the estimated cost of equity using the average return of the CAPM and the dividend discount model?

The length of time a firm must wait to recoup, in present value terms, the money it has invested in a project is referred to as the:

Six months ago, you purchased 500 shares of stock in Szeto Worldwide at a price of $27.84 per share. The stock pays a quarterly dividend of $1.85 per share. Today, you sold all of your shares for $33.20 per share. What is the total amount of your dividend income on this investment?

When evaluating capital project proposals, assume a firm assigns unique discount rates based on the risk level of each project. Accordingly the:

Cantu Custom Auto has sales of $987,400 and costs of goods sold of $362,300. Beginning inventory is $64,300 and ending inventory is $60,900. What is the inventory turnover rate?