A financial planner who claims to have a superior method for picking stocks is attempting to lure one of your clients away from you. He claims the best way to find the value of a stock is to divide EBITDA by the risk-free bond rate. He is urging your client to invest in Jeitu Inc. The planner says that Jeitu’s EBITDA of $1,580 million divided by the long-term government bond rate of 7% equals a total value of $22,571.4 million. With 318 million shares outstanding, Jeitu’s value per share using this method is $70.98.  Jeitu’s shares currently trade at $36.50.   a. Provide your client with an alternative estimate of value based on a two-stage FCFE valuation approach. Use the following assumptions: • Net income is currently $600 million. Net income will grow by 20% annually for the next three years. • The net investment in operating assets (capital expenditures less depreciation plus investment in working capital) will be $1,150 million next year and grow at 15% for the following two years. • Forty percent of the net investment in operating assets will be financed with new debt financing. • Jeitu’s beta is 1.3; the risk-free rate is 7%; the equity risk premium is 4%. • After three years, the growth rate of net income will be 8% and the net investment in operating assets each year will drop to 30% of net income. • Debt is and will continue to be 40% of total assets. • Jeitu has 318 million shares outstanding.   b. List what is wrong with the valuation approach used by the financial planner trying to lure your client away from you.

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A financial planner who claims to have a superior method for picking stocks is attempting to lure one of your clients away from you. He claims the best way to find the value of a stock is to divide EBITDA by the risk-free bond rate. He is urging your client to invest in Jeitu Inc. The planner says that Jeitu’s EBITDA of $1,580 million divided by the long-term government bond rate of 7% equals a total value of $22,571.4 million. With 318 million shares outstanding, Jeitu’s value per share using this method is $70.98.  Jeitu’s shares currently trade at $36.50.
 
a. Provide your client with an alternative estimate of value based on a two-stage FCFE valuation approach. Use the following assumptions:
• Net income is currently $600 million. Net income will grow by 20% annually for the next three years.
• The net investment in operating assets (capital expenditures less depreciation plus investment in working capital) will be $1,150 million next year and grow at 15% for the following two years.
• Forty percent of the net investment in operating assets will be financed with new debt financing.
• Jeitu’s beta is 1.3; the risk-free rate is 7%; the equity risk premium is 4%.
• After three years, the growth rate of net income will be 8% and the net investment in operating assets each year will drop to 30% of net income.
• Debt is and will continue to be 40% of total assets.
• Jeitu has 318 million shares outstanding.
 
b. List what is wrong with the valuation approach used by the financial planner trying to lure your client away from you.
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