Nevada Co. is a U.S. firm that conducts major importing and exporting business in Japan, and all transactions are invoiced in dollars. It obtained debt in the U.S. at an interest rate of 10 percent per year. The long-term risk-free rate in the U.S. is 8 percent. The stock market return in the U.S. is expected to be 14 percent annually. Nevada’s beta is 1.2. Its target is 30 percent debt and 70 percent equity. Nevada Co. is subject to a 25% corporate tax rate.
a. Estimate the to Nevada Co.
b. Nevada has no subsidiaries in foreign countries but plans to replace some of its dollar denominated debt with Japanese yen-denominated debt, since Japanese interest rates are low. It will obtain yen-denominated debt at an interest rate of 5 percent. It can not effectively hedge the risk resulting from this debt because of parity conditions that makes the price of derivatives contracts reflect the interest rate differential. How could Nevada Co. reduce its exposure to the risk resulting from the yen-denominated debt without moving its operations?
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