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- May 17, 2018 at 8:50 pm #452589
Locki plc is a growing company specializing in making accessories for mobile phones and tablets . the company is currently all equity finaced with 2 million ordinary shares in issue. The existing shareholders are mainly family members and friends. The directors of loki need to raise finance to fund a new factory and are considering a range of options including floatation and venture capital, future growth is anticipated to be following :
Earning next year = 0.25 m, expected to grow at 7%pa
dividend nect year = 0.14m expected to grow at 4%paFlotation
Q plc a listed company with similar business activities to loki has a P/E ratio of 9, an equity beta of 1.2 and gearig measured as debt:equity of 1:2. loki is expected to grow faster than Q plc atleast in short termIf floatation is approved then the issue share price would be set at 15% discount to fair value. the directors of Loki do not believe that an asset valuation is of much use here
Venture capital
The directors of loki have been in discussion with 4 Ts, a listed venture capital company. As well as contributing equity, 4Ts would seek to spread the risk of their investment by also investing in the form of 4 year 5% secured redeemable bonds and also covertible prference share. The risk adjusted return on similar bonds has been estimated at 6%. Corporation tax is 30%
Which 2 of the following statement concerning 4T’s perspective are correct
a)4T’s will accept a lower level of dividend on convertible preference shares compared to normal preference shares
b)4T’s are likely to prefer to use CAPM in valuing loki shares
c)Current shareholders would be willing to sell majority equity stake to 4T’s
d)4T’s investment in preference shares will have lowest risk out of 3 methods of finance offered due to option to convertSir correct ans is A and B. I have understood that why A is true and D is false. But I cannot understand that why C is false and B is true, can you please explain
May 18, 2018 at 7:28 am #452632You must not copy out full questions like this. It is copyright of Kaplan and it is therefore illegal for it to be posted elsewhere.
B is true because 4T is a quoted company and is therefore assumed to be fully diversified, in which case it is CAPM that will determine their decision.
C is false because we have no idea whether or not the current shareholders will find the price offered to them attractive enough.
This question is not typical of what is likely to be asked in the F9 exam.
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