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100

What's the cutoff of IG and HY (Give both)

Moody’s Baa3 (ba1 is top HY)

S&P BBB- (BB+ is top HY)

100

Oct PPI (Headline & Core - less food & energy)

Headline: 0.2%

Core: 0.3%

100

Worst performing Sector in our portfolio?

Energy

100

What’s 1 divided by 8?

0.125

100

1st Sem: Walk me through a DCF (Interview Answer)

- “Values a company on the PV of its Cash Flows and the PV of its Terminal Value”

- Project with assumptions about revenue, expenses, WC

- EBIT, - Tax, =EBIAT

- Add D&A, Less WC changes, CapX - UFCF

- WACC

- TV (2)

- TVPV + FCFPV

- EV - Net Debt = Equity Value, Divide by DCO

200

Name a deal that closed within the last month: acquirer and acquiree, price (bonus: multiple)

Will google in room tbh

200

Current 10-Year Yield

4.386 - 4.483%

200

Cast of MEF Website Walkthrough

- Tori

- Noah

- Trevor

200

3 cats can catch 3 mice in 3 hours. How many cats are needed to catch 100 mice in 100 hours?

100 cats

200

B: 1 Rfr: 4.44%

ERM: 9%

Mkt Cap: 12,000

WAIR: 4% Int Exp: $120

Tax: 21%

WACC: 7.70%

300

Inflationary Environment: 5Guys uses FIFO, McDicks uses LIFO, they report identical Operating Results (EBIT). 5Guys switches to LIFO. Who will report a higher NI going forward?

McDicks 

300

ECB Overnight Rate?

3.25%

300

MEF Founding Fathers & Year?

Mike Schiraga, Candice Lo, Drew Schwarz

2007

300

CJ, Mike, Miller, and Ram are trying to cross a bridge. Only two people can cross the bridge at the same time and every trip must have the lone flashlight cross. They have 17 minutes total. CJ can cross in 10 minutes, Mike in 5, Miller in 2, and Ram in 1. How can this be done within 17 Minutes?

1 & 2 cross = 2 

1 return = 3

5 & 10 = 13

2 return = 15

1 & 2 = 17

300

Par: 100

Coup: 6%

Rate: 15%

10y bond

PV Coupons: 30.5835

PV Bond:23.5413

=54.13

400

What is the formula for additional paid in capital?

Old APIC + Stock Based Compensation + Value of stock created by Option Exercises.

(The value of new stock created when employees exercise their options).

400

Name 3 Fed Board Members

1. JP

2. Philip Jeff

3. Mike Barr

4. Mich Bowman

5. Lisa Cook

6. Adriana Kug

7. Chris Waller

400

Leadership Team & Role (2019-2022)

2022

- PDil; PM

- Veda; Chair

- Yesha; DoR

- Tori; Pres

2021

- Trev; Pres

- Daddio; Chair

- Isaac; PM

2020

- Nast; Chair

- Aik; PM

2019

- Dan; Chair

- Edden; Pres

- Goetz; PM

400

There is a magical waffle in a storage locker. Every minute, each waffle undergoes mitosis and turns into two waffles, at the end of an hour the storage locker is full,at what minute is the locker 25% full.

58th minute = ¼

59th = ½

60th = 1

400

EBITDA: 40M, EV/EBITDA: 5x, Cash: $10M, Senior Secured Debt: $150M

Unsecured Debt: $100M Where would the unsecured debt trade in pure recovery?

60%

EV: 200M

Total for Recovery: 210M

- 150M = 60M

60M/100M = .6

500

What is JP Brennans middle name.

David

500

Data being released tomorrow?

U.S. retail sales, import prices, export prices, industrial production, manufacturing & trade inventories,

500

Name 4 MEF placement that no longer exist

SVB, Credit Suisse, Piper Jaffray, Miller Buckfire, Columbia Management

500

What is FCF Yield?

= FCF/Share / Mkt Cap/Share

500

If a company has negative WC, and you value it on EV - is it over or understated.

EV-based valuation may not fully reflect the value generated by the company's working capital dynamics, leading to an understatement of its true value