Lewis Securities Inc. has decided to acquire a new market data and quotation system for its Richmond home office. The system receives current market prices and other information from several online data services and then either displays the information on a screen or stores it for later retrieval by the firm’s brokers. The system also permits customers to call up current quotes on terminals in the lobby.The equipment costs $1,000,000 and, if it were purchased, Lewis could obtain a term loan for the full purchase price at a 10% interest rate. Although the equipment has a 6-yearuseful life, it is classified as a special-purpose computer and therefore falls into the MACRS3-year class. If the system were purchased, a 4-year maintenance contract could be obtained at a cost of $20,000 per year, payable at the beginning of each year. The equipment would be sold after 4 years, and the best estimate of its residual value is$200,000. However, because real-time display system technology is changing rapidly, the actual residual value is uncertain.As an alternative to the borrow-and-buy plan, the equipment manufacturer informed Lewis that Consolidated Leasing would be willing to write a 4-year guideline lease on the equipment, including maintenance, for payments of $260,000 at the beginning of each year.Lewis’s marginal federal-plus-state tax rate is 40%. You have been asked to analyze the lease-versus-purchase decision and, in the process, to answer the following questions:
a.
1. Who are the two parties to a lease transaction?
2. What are the five primary types of leases, and what are their characteristics?
3. How are leases classified for tax purposes?
4. What effect does leasing have on a firm’s balance sheet?
5. What effect does leasing have on a firm’s capital structure?
b.
1. What is the present value of owning the equipment? (Hint: Set up a time line that shows the net cash flows over the period to , and then find thePV of these net cash flows, or the PV cost of owning.)
2. Explain the rationale for the discount rate you used to find the PV.
c. What is Lewis’s present value of leasing the equipment? (Hint: Again, construct a timeline.
d. What is the net advantage to leasing (NAL)? Does your analysis indicate that Lewis should buy or lease the equipment? Explain.
e. Now assume that the equipment’s residual value could be as low as $0 or as high as$400,000, but $200,000 is the expected value. Because the residual value is riskier than the other relevant cash flows, this differential risk should be incorporated into the analysis.
Describe how this could be accomplished. (No calculations are necessary,but explain how you would modify the analysis if calculations were required.) What effect would the residual value’s increased uncertainty have on Lewis’ lease-versus-purchase decision?
f. The lessee compares the present value of owning the equipment with the presentvalue of leasing it. Now put yourself in the lessor’s shoes. In a few sentences, how should you analyze the decision to write or not to write the lease?
g. 1. Assume that the lease payments were actually $280,000 per year, that Consolidated Leasing is also in the 40% tax bracket, and that it also forecasts a$200,000 residual value. Also, to furnish the maintenance support, Consolidated would have to purchase a maintenance contract from the manufacturer at the same $20,000 annual cost, again paid in advance. Consolidated Leasing can obtain an expected 10% pre-tax return on investments of similar risk. What would be Consolidated’s NPV and IRR of leasing under these conditions?
2. What do you think the lessor’s NPV would be if the lease payment were set at$260,000 per year? (Hint: The lessor’s cash flows would be a “mirror image” ofthe lessee’s cash flows.)
h. Lewis’s management has been considering moving to a new downtown location, and they are concerned that these plans may come to fruition prior to the equipment lease’s expiration. If the move occurs, then Lewis would buy or lease an entirely new set of equipment, so management would like to include a cancellation clause in the lease contract. What effect would such a clause have on the riskiness of the lease from Lewis’s standpoint? From the lessor’s standpoint? If you were the lessor, would you insist on changing any of the other lease terms if a cancellation clause were added? Should the cancellation clause contain provisions similar to call premiums or any restrictive covenants and/or penalties of the type contained in bond indentures?Explain your answer.
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