Company Valuation Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

ANALYSIS:

The analysis that has been done in the excel, it shows that the projected present value of the first project is around $105million, 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 Scholles Model. In evaluating the value of the second-generation phone, Penelope considered this put option in the Black Scholles 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.

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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.

Please see the Excel file for the calculation. 

APPENDICES:

Exhibit 1:

DCF Analysis Amount in $000

 

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

Net Earnings

($4,000)

$0

$2,405

$2,285

($65)

($900)

Add Depreciation

$900

$900

$900

$900

$900

$900

Less Investment in Working capital

$1,500

$0

$0

$0

$0

($1,500)

Free Cash flows

($4,600)

$900

$3,305

$3,185

$835

$1,500

PV at 17%

$1,509

Investment Cost

$10,000

NPV

($8,491)

2001

Net Earnings

($4,000)

NPV

($8,491)

 

Exhibit 3:

Second Project Valuation

Expected Value

 

Probability

Expected value

Cash flow Increase by 64.9%

$2,489

0.5

$1,244

Cash flow decrease by 39.3%

$1,511

0.5

$755

Expected Value

$2,000

Expected Value that Justify Investment

$101,000

Second Project Investment

$100,000

NPV

($98,000)

NPV that Justify investment

$1,000

Exhibit 4:

Input Data

Stock Price now (P)

6515

Exercise Price of Option (EX)

4000

Number of periods to Exercise in years (t)

2

Compounded Risk-Free Interest Rate (rf)

10.00%

Standard Deviation (annualized s)

50.00%

Output Data

Present Value of Exercise Price (PV(EX))

3274.92301

s*t^.5

0.7071

d1

1.3263

d2

0.6192

Delta N(d1) Normal Cumulative Density Function

0.9076

Bank Loan  N(d2)*PV(EX)  

2397.5541

Value of Call  

3516

Value of Put                  276

First Project with put option (Abandonment by selling equipment for 4 million)

Exercise Price              4,000
Asset Price              6,515
Standard Deviation

50%

Value of Put Option                  276
Investment Cost            10,000
NPV           (9,724)

Exhibit 5:

Binominal Option Pricing for First Project

First Project

Ingredients

Stock Price S0

6515

Exercise Price X

4000

Interest Rate r

0.1

Volatility

0.5

Time to Maturity

2

Number of Steps

5

Dividend Yield

0

Black Scholes analytical solution

d1

1.326267651

d2

0.619160869

nd1

0.907624471

nd2

0.732094806

n_dash_d1

0.165558367

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