Penelopes Personal Pocket Phones Case Solution And Analysis, HBR Case Study Solution & Analysis of Harvard Case Studies

ANALYSIS:

The analysis that has been done in the excel, it shows that the projected present value of the first project is around $105 million, that is resulting from the evaluation of investment made in the manufacturing and distribution of the first project. Further analysis that has been made, shows the negative net present value after investing $10 million and the negative NPV is around $8.491million.

Further analysis has been made for the second generation phone in which Penelope as an investor had the choice to sell her company’s equipment after two years of business operations. When evaluating the first generation phone using the discounted cash flows approach that was not feasible for the evaluation of the first generation phone, Penelope considered the second alternative using the Black Scholes Model. In evaluating the value of the second-generation phone, Penelope considered this put option in the Black Scholes model that allows the investor to sell its company’s equipment in order to gain profit out of its operations.

In evaluating the second project, the gain on selling the equipment was taken as the exercise price and asset price was taken from the discounted cash flows. The cash flow amount that is the foregone value of the equipment is obtained from the sale of equipment. The put option resulted the value as $0.276 million, which incorporate the loss of around $9.724 million. This loss is higher than the loss evaluated in the above alternative.

On the other hand, the same Put option is evaluated using the Binomial Option Pricing Model approach which resulted in the Put value of $563 million. The value comes when the equipment of the company was sold after two years.

CONCLUSION:

From the analysis made above, it shows that the first alternative as investing in the first-generation phone is not feasible, as it is not giving the desired value as Penelope expected. Relatively, this alternative is showing the negative cash flows.

Moreover, if Penelope wanted to invest in the second-generation phone with the investment of $100 million than the value that comes from Black Scholes Model and Binomial Option Pricing Model is not reasonable as it is very low than the invested amount. Further, any invested amount would only be invested when there is acapital gain in investing the capital, but in this case, the return is very lower than the invested amount, which is around $1.7 million.

Further, both models such as Black Scholes and Binomial Option Pricing Model shows that the second project is feasible to continue as the value of the second project is Zero in both cases. In addition to the above analysis, it can be concluded that, the second option that is second-generation phone is not to be exercised as it had no value that could generate profit.

RECOMMENDATION:

It would be recommended that, if Penelope wanted to start her business than she must consider to manufacture the first generation phone at lower cost and the second-generation phone would only be launched when there is enough profit generated from the sales of first-generation phone but this profit maximization would only be achieved when Penelope effectively market its product.......................

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Provides students the opportunity to use a simple real options analysis appreciate launch. Penelope Phillips decides whether to start a company to make wireless phones. Students gain experience using traditional discount cash flow estimates and the real options approach. "Hide
by Paul A. Gompers Source: Harvard Business School 2 pages. Publication Date: April 27, 1999. Prod. #: 299004-PDF-ENG