Show clearly the steps to arrive at the following estimates in Exhibit 10: Enterprise Value as Multiple of: Revenue EBIT EBITDA Net Income 6,252 8,775 9,023 7,596 6,584 9,289 9,076 7,553 MV Equity as Multiple of: EPS Book Value 4,277 5,904 4,308 5,678 Median Mean If you need to use a discount rate to discount cash flows then an appropriate discount rate estimate for PacifiCorp is approximately 9%. 3. Bid assessment: How do you assess the bid for PacifiCorp by Berkshire Hathaway? How much does Buffett pay for PacifiCorp for its equity and as a whole? How do these values compare with the firm’s intrinsic values estimated above?
Using the high-low method of cost estimation determine total fixed costs are. Select the correct answer. $84,545 | | | $41,432 | | | $43,113 | | | $22,011 | | 5. Given the following cost and activity observations for Johnson Company's utilities, use the high-low method to calculate Johnson's fixed costs per month. | Cost | Machine Hours | April | $61,255 | 1,189 | May | $82,714 | 1,806 | June | $97,496 | 2,474 | Using the high-low method, determine the variable cost per unit, and the total fixed costs.
How does the sales growth rates in recent years compare with the growth in inventory and accounts receivable? What might explain why these rates are similar or different? In the last financial year, preliminary reports indicate that the company managed to generate $42.6 Million compared to the previous year where it generated $35.1 Million reporting an increase of 21.3% in revenue. Inventory grew by 16.9% and account receivable grew by 40.1% from 2005 to 2006. Ceres is a service company and they carry fewer amounts of inventory compared to a typical manufacturing company.
Wal-Mart - Strategic Audit I. Current Situation A. Current Performance In the past year Wal-Mart’s performances in market share, profitability, and return on investment have had significant changes compared to past years performance. * Return on investment now compared to previous years: they are paying out $63.079 billion to their shareholders compared to last years $58.763 billion and an average of $3.09 earnings per share of the 4.068 billion shares out. * Market share today: Out of 2,000 big companies Wal-Mart is at 17 with 201.36 billion in market value and in its industry of retail, Wal-Mart is ranked #1 with Home Depot and Target behind.
2010) is provided below. 1167872 4 Despite the leading position and the good business results, SWOT shows several sources of potential risks for UST. The company is losing market share against new price-value competitors because of slow innovation and late product introduction and extensions. Historically, UST relied on his leading market position boosting earnings with annual prices increases. But in the meanwhile smaller competitors started to quickly erode market share with prices cut.
Blaine Kitchenware represents 10% of the U.S market share of the industry (market = $2.3bn) but is also present in foreign market. The company’s recent strategy moves include increasing its presence on the foreign market, growing its beverage preparation appliance segment and competing in higher-end segment with higher price point. Despite the company’s profitability (net income of $53.6m on revenue of $342m), the company lacks of organic growth and all of its recent growth is due to acquisition. When comparing the ROE of the industry, one can observe that Blaine Kitchenware (11%) is significantly below the average (25.9%). In recent years, the company increased its number of outstanding share to finance its acquisitions, which raised the payout ratio to more than 50% in 2006.
Centralia store’s sales have been below budget for the last quarter of 2002 and this first quarter of 2003. Still, operating margins are near plan due to sales of slightly higher gross margin items and a reduction in operating expenses. They have also had a higher customer count for this first quarter (Kerin & Peterson, 1998/2010, pp. 484-495). Market Conditions Centralia, Missouri had food and beverage sales of $62.3 million in 2002, which was a 4.6 percent increase over the previous year.
Ratio Analysis From 2006 to 2007 Britvic’s net profit rose by 0.3% while gross profit fell by 1.05%, therefore production cost was reduced, which can be due to the deal with C&C (Magners cider maker) and the acquisition of Ballygowan water which brought a cost saving of €14m. Over the past 5 years, 2010 achieved one of its highest gross profit 55.3% and net profit was never so high at 7%. The deal with C&C also made Britvic’s share prices raise and it reached its highest price (399p) over 2 years period. As many companies, Britvic in 2008 was also affected by the global economic crisis and in that year gross profit fell by nearly 8% but net profit was not affected as much. Britvic’s pubs trade was also affected by the recession, company shares fell to its low in 5 years, reaching 222.25 p, a difference of 165p comparing with previous year.
Audi's global sales rose 8.3% to 1.58 million vehicles in 2013 however despite the increase in revenue, the net profit fell 7.7% ($5.57billion) and the operating profit margin fell to 10.1% from 11% the previous year. Based on this one could assume Audi is experiencing diseconomy of scale. But when you dig deeper into their situation the reasons for a lower net profit is not because of a “per-unit” cost of production which would truly mean they are operating as a diseconomies of scale. The true reasons appear to be because of their expansion investments. As per the article Audi “warned that profit would be hit by investment in new models and tougher climate regulation”.
We can conclude that they use FIFO because the inventory amount increases through 06 in 65% and then decreases in 07 by -13%. The rise in prices in 2006 is the reason why the inventory is more expensive because the increase in purchases was not as big as the increase in inventory price. If they used LIFO the inventory in 2006 would not have