Harmonic Hearing
1) For both financing alternative, develop a model that shows forecasted revenues, expenses, profits, and free cash flows generated by Harmonic in years one through seven.
-Model shown in chart below.
• What is the terminal value of the company under each scenario?
As you can see in the graph below, the terminal value for the company if it takes the equity route is about $106M, where if it takes the debt route its terminal value will be about $45M.
• What cash payments will be made by the company at the end of year seven?
As you can see in the graph below, the only cash outflows from the company in year 7 will come from debt financing, with about an $11M outflow from buying back the building from Frank Thomas,
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After year 5, they cash flow will pick up where it left off and increase even higher until they sell the company. The IRR will be around 429%. And the value created from the small investment will be just under $45 million in only a 7 year period.
5) What are the positives and negatives of each proposal? Which financing alternative would you recommend and why?
Equity Proposal
• Advantages
i. Higher IRR ii. Can immediately complete launch of new hearing aid
Will stay ahead of competition iii. Will reduce the risk of the transaction iv. Will reduce cost of goods sold on new goods from purchasing new equipment
v. Will increase depreciation expense, lowering tax expenses vi. Will have no rent, interest, or lease expenses vii. If company goes down, will not have to pay any additional money back
• Disadvantages
i. Less ownership in company ii. Will have to invest more capital in the company than the debt proposal
Debt Proposal
• Advantages
i. Maintain 100% ownership of company
Will not have to follow anyone else’s plans for the business and can completely control the direction the company moves in ii. More tax deductions
• Disadvantages
i. Lower IRR ii. Will have a delay in bringing new hearing aid to the market
Will allow competition to catch up to them faster iii. Will have to worry about having enough cash flow to pay for several different interest payments and
Putting down, $2,300 million at year 0, with zero NPV (cash flows) until payout at year 5, the calculated IRR for investors is: 21.13%. This IRR is more than the targeted IRR of 20% that Carlyse expected. Thus, would make this LBO an ideal target.
The company position is strong enough so its better that company should use debt financing instead of equity financing.
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Thus, by year three the company will be making a profit off the investment as year three is 86.73 million profit by 55.35 cost giving the company a 31.38 million dollar surplus. Generally, a period of payback of three year or less is acceptable (Reference Entry) causing this project to be viable based off the payback analysis. Although, these calculations are flawed. The reason for this is because the time value of money is not taken into effect when calculating payback periods which is where IRR can further assist in a more realistic financial picture (Reference Entry).
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flow in 2007 and to increase free cash flow in 2008 and beyond. In addition, these
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When I was watching video, my roommate always trying to talk to me, and usually I cannot really attend to her message. This also happens to me sometimes when I'm busy writing my paper and my friends are trying to talk to me. It is a challenge for me because I am not the person who can focus on two things at the same time. Therefore, in the future in order to attend to their message, I have to pause my video or stop writing.
The cash flow situation started falling from the end of year 12. The company should have known from this.
Kohler’s Free Cash Flow (FCF) model is developed using the Non-Cash Working Capital Approach, a correlated Beta and an EBITA that excludes both interest income and expense. The Non-Cash Working Capital is used because of the consistency each year in Kohler’s forecasted working capital. [Table 4]
They will end up with 6.3 billion external funding needed. While in the long-term, the operating cash flow increased but the capital expenditure increased also. They actually will end up with 6.6 billion dollar needed to finance.
Present value of Cash inflow = $2,000,000 / (1+0.125) ^1 + $3,500,000 / (1+0.125) ^ 2 + $13,500,000 / (1+0.125) ^ 3 + $89,750,000 / (1+0.125) ^ 4 + $115,000,000 / (1+0.125) ^ 5 + $120,000,000 / (1+0.125) ^ 6