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Session 27 Test

Kenna Software reported $15 million in net income for the most recent year. An institutional investor is pushing for the company to pay a dividend, though as a growing technology company Kenna may need cash for future investments. Klarman Inc. is expected to see 10% growth next year in revenues, earnings, capital expenditures and depreciation. Given the information provided about its current cash balance, income, expenditures and dividends, its cash balance at the end of next year will be $214 million. As an activist investor, the company that should be pressured the most to return cash to shareholders is Company F, which has a low return on capital of 5% and is underleveraged with

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Session 27 Test

Kenna Software reported $15 million in net income for the most recent year. An institutional investor is pushing for the company to pay a dividend, though as a growing technology company Kenna may need cash for future investments. Klarman Inc. is expected to see 10% growth next year in revenues, earnings, capital expenditures and depreciation. Given the information provided about its current cash balance, income, expenditures and dividends, its cash balance at the end of next year will be $214 million. As an activist investor, the company that should be pressured the most to return cash to shareholders is Company F, which has a low return on capital of 5% and is underleveraged with

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Session

27: Post Class tests


1. Kenna Software is a growing technology company that has just become
profitable, reporting $15 million in the net income for the most recent year. An
institutional investor is pushing the company to pay a dividend, since it is now a
money making company. Would you agree?
a. Yes
b. No
c. It depends (specify on what)
2. Klarman Inc. reported $150 million as net income on revenues of $1 billion in
the most recent year; capital expenditures were $100 million, depreciation was
$60 million and non-cash working capital was $80 million. Its revenues, earnings,
capital expenditures and depreciation are expected to grow 10% next year,
while non-cash working capital will remain at the same percent of revenues that
it was in the most recent year. If Klarman pays out 60% of its earnings as
dividends and currently has a cash balance of $200 million, what will its cash
balance be at the end of next year?
a. $188 million
b. $214 million
c. $242 million
d. $260 million
e. None of the above
3. You are an activist investor looking to put pressure on companies that have
accumulated too much cash to return cash to stockholders. Which of the
following companies would you put the most pressure on to return cash? (You
can assume that they all have a cost of capital of 10% and an optimal debt ratio
of 40%)
a. Company A: ROC = 25%, Actual debt ratio = 40%
b. Company B: ROC =25%, Actual debt ratio = 60%
c. Company C: ROC = 25%, Actual debt ratio = 10%
d. Company D: ROC = 5%, Actual debt ratio = 40%
e. Company E: ROC =5%, Actual debt ratio = 60%
f. Company F: ROC = 5%, Actual debt ratio = 10%

Session 27: Post class test solutions


1. c. Maybe (probably no). First, I have to check the FCFE. While the earnings are
positive, it is possible that the company, being a growth company, has other
reinvestments that make the FCFE negative. Second, I have to check future
reinvestment needs to see if the company may need the cash in future years. It is
likely that the company will not be able to pay dividends yet.
2. b. $214 million. First, compute the FCFE
FCFE = 150(1.1) + 60(1.1) -100(1.1) - .08 (1100-1000) = 113
Note that working capital is currently 8% of revenues and will continue at that
same percent next year.
The dividends paid are 60% of net income = .60 (165) = 99
Change in cash balance = 113- 99= +14
New cash balance = 200 + 14 = $214 million
3. f. Company F: ROC = 5%, Actual debt ratio = 10%. An under levered company
that takes bad projects has no business holding on to cash. It cannot claim that it
needs the cash for great projects or as a buffer against a downturn (default).

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