Chapter 10: Valuation and Rates of Return
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If you have done all these steps correctly, you should get an answer approximately
equal to the answer in part a.
c. As an alternative measure, you also examine the value of the firm based on the
price-earnings (P/E) ratio times earnings per share.
Since the company is privately traded (not in the public stock market), you will
get your anticipated P/E ratio by taking the average value of five publicly traded
chemical companies. The P/E ratios were as follows during the time period under
analysis:
P/E Ratio
Dow Chemical........... 15
DuPont………………….. 18
Georgia Gulf....…….... 7
3M……………….……….. 19
Olin Corp…….…......... 21
Assume Dunning Chemical has earnings per share of $2.10. What is the stock value
based on the P/E ratio approach? Multiply the average P/E ratio you computed
times earnings per share. How does this value compare to the dividend valuation
model values that you computed in parts a and b?
d. If in computing the industry average P/E, you decide to weight Olin Corp. by
40 percent and the other four firms by 15 percent, what would be the new
weighted average industry P/E? (Note: You decided to weight Olin Corp. more
heavily because it is similar to Dunning Chemical.) What will the new stock
price be? Earnings per share will stay at $2.10.
e. By what percent will the stock price change as a result of using the weighted
average industry P/E ratio in part d as opposed to that in part c?
Present Value of Principal Payment at Maturity
PV = FV × PVIF (n = 20, i = 11%) (Appendix B)
PV = $1,000 × .124 = $124
Total Present Value
Present value of interest payments…………………….. $ 939.63
Present value of principal payment at maturity...... 124.00
Total present value, or price, of the bond…………. $1,063.63
The discount rate of 11 percent gives us a value slightly lower than the bond
price of $1,085. The rate for the bond must fall between 10 and 11 percent.
Using linear interpolation, the answer is 10.76 percent