Chapter 4: 19BP (page 283)
Al Rosen invests $25,000 in a mint condition 1952 Mickey Mantle Topps baseball card. He expects the card to increase in value 12 percent per year for the next 10 years. How much will his card be worth after 10 years?
The future value is $77,646.21.
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If your uncle borrows $60,000 from the bank at 10 percent interest over the seven-year life of the loan, what equal annual payments must be made to discharge the loan, plus pay the bank its required rate of interest (round to the nearest dollar)? How much of his first payment will be applied to interest? To principal? How much of his second payment will be applied to each?
How much would you have to invest today to receive c. $6,000 each year for 10 years at 9 percent?
Larry Davis borrows $80,000 at 14 percent interest toward the purchase of a home. His mortgage is for 25 years.
a.How much will his annual payments be? (Although home payments are usually on a monthly basis, we shall do our analysis on an annual basis for ease of computation. We will get a reasonably accurate answer.)
b.How much interest will he pay over the life of the loan?
c.How much should he be willing to pay to get out of a 14 percent mortgage and into a 10 percent mortgage with 25 years remaining on the mortgage?
Assume current interest rates are 10 percent. Carefully consider the timeb value of money. Disregard taxes.
Terrier Company is in a 40 percent tax bracket and has a bond outstanding that yields 10 percent to maturity. a. What is Terrier’s aftertax cost of debt? b. Assume that the yield on the bond goes down by 1 percentage point, and due to tax reform, the corporate tax rate falls to 25 percent. What is Terrier’s new aftertax cost of debt? c. Has the aftertax cost of debt gone up or down from part a to part b? Explain why
What two components make up the required rate of return on common stock?
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