Solutions to Exercise and Cases
for Financial Statement
Analysis and Security
Valuation
By Stephen H. Penman
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CHAPTER ONE
Introduction to Investing and Valuation
Exercises Drill
Exercises
E1.1. Calculating Enterprise Value
Enterprise Value = $1,800 million
E1.2. Calculating Value Per Share
Equity Value = $1,800
E1.3 Buy or Sell?
Value = $850 + $675
= $1,525 million
Value per share = $1,525/25 = $61
Market price = $45
Therefore, BUY!
Applications
E1.4. Finding Information on the Internet: Dell Computer and General Motors
This is an exercise in discovery. The links on the book’s web site will help with the search. Here is the
link to yahoo finance:
http://finance.yahoo.com
E1.5. Enterprise Market Value: General Mills and Hewlett-Packard
(a) General Mills
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Market value of the equity =
Book value of total (short-term and long-term) debt =
Enterprise value
Note three points:
(i) Total market value of equity = Price per share Shares outstanding.
(ii) The book value of debt is typically assumed to equal its market value, but financial
statement footnotes give market value of debt to confirm this.
(iii) The book value of equity is not a good indicator of its market value. The price-to- book ratio
for the equity can be calculated from the numbers given:
$20,925/$6,215.8 = 3.37.
(b) This question provokes the issue of whether debt held as assets is part of enterprise value (a part of
operations) or effectively a reduction of the net debt claim on the firm. The issue arises in the financial
statement analysis in Part II of the book: are debt assets part of operations or part of financing activities?
Debt is part of financing activities if it is held to absorb excess cash rather than used as a business asset. The
excess cash could be applied to buying back the firm’s debt rather than buying the debt of others, so the net
debt claim on enterprise value is what is important. Put another way, HP is not in the business of trading
debt, so the debt asset is not part of enterprise operations. The calculation of enterprise value is as follows:
Market value of equity = $47 2,473 million shares = $116,231 million
Book value of net debt claims:
Short-term borrowing $ 711 million
Long-term debt 7,688
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Total debt $8,399 million
Debt assets 11,513 (3,114)
Enterprise value 113,117 million
E1.6. Identifying Operating, Investing, and Financing Transactions
(a) Financing
(b) Operations
(c) Operations; but advertising might be seen as investment in a brand-name asset
(d) Financing
(e) Financing
(f) Operations
(g) Investing. R& D is an expense in the income statement, so the student might be inclined to
classify it as an operating activity; but it is an investment.
(h) Operations. But an observant student might point out that interest – that is a part of
financing activities – affects taxes. Chapter 9 shows how taxes are allocated between
operating and financing activities in this case.
(i) Investing
(j) Operations
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