Dorman Industries has a new project available that requires an initial investmen

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Dorman Industries has a new project available that requires an initial investment of $6.3 million. The project will provide unlevered cash flows of $855,000 per year for the next 20 years. The company will finance the project with a debt-to-value ratio of .4. The company's bonds have a YTM of 6.4 percent. The companies with operations comparable to this project have unlevered betas of 1.33, 1.26, 1.48, and 1.43. The risk-free rate is 3.4 percent, and the market risk premium is 6.6 percent. The company has a tax rate of 35 percent. ars, e. 32.1 What is the NPV of this project? (Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) NPV

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1) Average of the unlevered betas of comparable companies = (1.33+1.26+1.48+1.43)/4 = 1.375 Levered Beta = Unlevered Beta x (1 + ((1 – Tax Rate) x (Debt/Equity))) = 1.375*(1.65*0.4/0.6) = 1.5125 2) Cost of levered equity as per CAPM = 3.4+6.6*1.5125 = 13.3825 % 3) After tax cost of debt = 6.4*0.65 = 4.16 % 4) WACC = 4.16*0.4+13.3825*0.6 = 9.69 % 5) NPV = 855000*(1.0969^20-1)/(0.0969*1.0969^20)-6300000 = $   11,35,810.18

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