Portage Bay Enterprises has $ 1$1 million in excess cash, no debt, and is expected to have free cash flow of $ 10$10 million next year. Its FCF is then expected to grow at a rate of 5 %5% per year forever. If Portage Bay's equity cost of capital is 13 %13% and it has 66 million shares outstanding, what should be the price of Portage Bay stock?

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?