Question 1 Overall, Starbucks’ performance has been mixed over the past six months. On April 13, 2012, its stock price reached a high of $61.67 per share and closed at $57.37 per share. Since April, the price of Starbucks’ stock fell on average in the following closing months of May and June before reaching a low of $43.16 in the opening days of August. The fall was correlated with the release of Starbucks’ third quarter annual report, which showed a less-than-expected performance for that quarter; the earnings per share were $0.43 compared to a market expectation of $0.45 (Baertlein). Since then, the price of Starbucks’ stock has gradually increased. Although market risk factors like decreased consumer spending may have impacted …show more content…
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n. Raw beta = 1.201 (p. 2 Bloomberg)
o. Risk premium = 5.5% (given)
p. Cost of debt = 2.82% (p. 2 Bloomberg)
q. Effective tax rate = 38% (given)
r. Under the linear decline model, the equity value per share is $55.59, while the current stock price is $51.07. Based on our evaluation, the current stock price is undervalued. Under the exponential decline model, the equity value per share is $47.63, while the current stock price is $51.07. Based on our evaluation, the current stock price is overvalued.
Question 3
a. Current year EPSO = Earnings per share – basic
b. Year 1 Consensus EPS Forecast (p. 3 Bloomberg)
c. Year 2 Consensus EPS Forecast (p. 3 Bloomberg)
e. Under the linear decline model, the final valuation of the equity per share is $52.70, while the current market price per share is $51.07. Based on our evaluations, the stock is undervalued. Under the exponential decline model, the final equity value per share is $45.10, while the current market price per share is $51.07. Based on our evaluation, the stock is overvalued.
Question 4 The Free Cash Flow For The Firm (FCFF) approach based on the linear decline most accurately reflects the value of Starbucks. The capital structure of Starbucks has been fluctuating. For example, in 2007 and 2008, Starbucks’ debt ratios were about .57 and .56 respectively; for those years, over 50% Starbucks’ assets were provided via debt. However, in 2009, 2010, and 2011, Starbucks’ debt
Since the IPO the stock have had a generally speaking stable trend. According to Yahoo! Finance, the stock have grown +8.41% points since December 9th, 2011 until the market was closed on Friday December 7th, 2012. Daily the stock is raging from 16.91 to 17.19 per share, and in a 52 week range from 13.90 to 24.75. The following image is showing
The change in the growth assumption has significant impact on the stock price. Under the high estimate of growth rate 236%, the new price per share is $107.56. Under the low estimate of growth rate 35%, the new price per share is $2.36.
It is higher than the current stock price, $1631.62 per share. Therefore, I suggest to buy the PCLN stock.
Zack’s recently downgraded the share price from a buy to a hold, while analysts at Canaccord Genuity continue to keep a buy rating on the stock with a price target of $27 per share. Out of five analysts polled, four of the five place a buy recommendation on the stock with a price target of $26 to $27 per share.
price has been gradually increasing over the past 5 years and is currently $106.70 per share as
ITT’s value has changed a lot over the recent events. Prior to any offer when ITT’s stock was trading at 43 dollars, the stand-alone value of its equity was 16.4 billion dollars. With the 55-dollar offer to ITT, the company’s value went up to approximately 21 billion. After the offer, the stock was trading at $63.50, which gave the total equity a value of 24.2 billion dollars.
The earnings per share of common stock for 2013 was $1.43 and the market price per stock as of Friday, April 25, 2014 was $26.08. The stock price 52 week high was $28.44 and the 52 week low is $20.59. However, the firm did not declare cash dividends on its common stock.
When determining the appropriate intrinsic value of USAK Truck Inc. 815 million shares of stock outstanding, it is suitable for this mature company with a stable history of growth to use the constant growth model. Expected growth rates vary somewhat among companies, but dividend growth for the most mature firms is generally expected to continue in the future at about the same rate as nominal gross domestic product. In order to determine the required rate of return to value stocks I used the Capital Asset Pricing Model. Using USAK’s beta of 1.17, the risk free rate of 1.35% (based on the t-bill rate) and the return on the market of 9% (the market average over the past 75 years), the required rate of return for USAK’s stock is 10.2835%.
This shows that investors were willing to pay more because of their increased confidence in the company’s future profits. Thus, share price increases from 0.17 to 24.22 times as more shareholders invested in it but in 2014-2013, it decreases to 18.56 as the shareholders are making a loss in the NAV ratio, thus pulling out their investment.
The current share price shown below has decreased 1.58% over the past year. The current share price is shown as 18.70. In the past year the highest it has been was in March where it was at 25.00. However the lowest it has been in the past year was 18.70 in October.
• Discounted future dividends, cash flows, and abnormal earnings may be used to estimate value. • Price-based multiples may also be used as value estimates. • No method by itself dominates any of the others. Copyright (c) 2008
At this new offering price, the firm’s value would be $1 billion. The board was facing a pricing dilemma whether to approve or reject underwriters’ recommendation at such unpredictable industry.
Over the last five years, the share value has increased from $28.62 in 2010 to over $100 as of November 3, 2014. There was a period of decline in value from the September 2012 all time high of $100.27 to a low of $56 in June 2013 when the value returned to a steady incline to the current price that exceeds the 2012 record breaking high (APPL, 2014).