Happy Times, Inc., wants to expand its party stores into the Southeast. In order

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Happy Times, Inc., wants to expand its party stores into the Southeast. In order to establish an immediate presence in the area, the company is considering the purchase of the privately held Joe’s Party Supply. Happy Times currently has debt outstanding with a market value of $160 million and a YTM of 7 percent. The company’s market capitalization is $400 million, and the required return on equity is 12 percent. Joe’s currently has debt outstanding with a market value of $31.5 million. The EBIT for Joe’s next year is projected to be $14 million. EBIT is expected to grow at 8 percent per year for the next five years before slowing to 4 percent in perpetuity. Net working capital, capital spending, and depreciation as a percentage of EBIT are expected to be 7 percent, 13 percent, and 6 percent, respectively. Joe’s has 1.95 million shares outstanding and the tax rate for both companies is 30 percent.

After examining your analysis, the CFO of Happy Times is uncomfortable using the perpetual growth rate in cash flows. Instead, she feels that the terminal value should be estimated using the EV/EBITDA multiple. The appropriate EV/EBITDA multiple is 10.

b. What is your new estimate of the maximum share price for the purchase? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

Maximum share price            $____________________

Explanation / Answer

a. To begin the valuation of Joe’s, we will begin by calculating the RWACCfor Happy Times. Since both companies arein the same industry, it is likely that the RWACC for both companies will be the same.

The weights of debt and equity are:

WD= $160,000,000 / ($160,000,000 + 400,000,000) = 28.57%

WE= $400,000,000 / ($160,000,000 + 400,000,000) = .71.43%

RWACC= .2957(.07)(1 .30) + .7143(.12) = 10.02%

Next, we need to calculate the cash flows for each year. The EBIT will grow at 8% per year for 5 years. Networking capital, capital spending, and depreciation are 7%, 13% and 6% of EBIT, respectively. So, the cash flows for each year over the next 5 years will be:

After Year 5 the cash flows will grow at 4% in perpetuity.

We can find the terminal value of the company inYear 5 using the cash flow in Year 6 as:

TV5= CF6/ (RWACC g)TV5= $10,666,234(1 + 0.04) / (.1002 .04)

TV5= $184,267,166

Now we can discount the cash flows and terminal value to today. Doing so, we find:

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Year 1 2 3 4 5 EBIT 14,000,000 15,120,000 16,329,600 17,635,968 19,046,845 Taxes @30% NI 9,800,000 10,584,000 11,430,720 12,345,178 13,332,792 Depreciation@6% of EBIT 840,000 907,200 979,776 1,058,158 1,142,811 OCF 10,640,000 11,491,200 12,410,496 13,403,336 14,475,603 - Capital spending@13% of EBIT 1,820,000 1,965,600 2,122,848 2,292,676 2,476,090 - Change in NWC@7% of EBIT 980,000 1,058,400 1,143,072 1,234,518 1,333,279 Cash flow from assets 7,840,000 8,467,200 9,144,576 9,876,142 10,666,234

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