Walmart is considering opening a small experimental store in New York City. A store is expected to have a long economic

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Walmart is considering opening a small experimental store in New
York City. A store is expected to have a long economic life, but
the valuation horizon is 17 years. The store in New York is likely
to generate revenues of $37M in the first year and then it grows at
6.5%. But the costs of running the business are high because the
margins on all the products sold are low. (It is a volume
business!) The cost of goods sold is $11M in year 1 and it is
expected to grow at 2.5% per year thereafter. Selling and
administration costs are likely to be $1.0M every year as it is a
small store. The tax rate is 21%. Walmart is so good at managing
its stores that working capital increases can be assumed to be
negligible. But since New York City is an expensive place, Walmart
will have to invest $150M in purchasing a building (with land) even
though it is a much smaller property than a usual Walmart store.
The good news is that this outlay can be straight line depreciated
over 17 years. Also, Walmart has estimated that the after-tax
terminal value in year 17 dollars is $125M. This value is the
present value of all cash flows in year 18 and beyond. What is the
NPV of opening this new store if the appropriate discount rate is
5.0%? (Again, all cash flows except initial investments happen at
the end of the year. You are strongly encouraged to use a
spreadsheet.) (Enter just the number in dollars without the $ sign
or a comma and round off decimals to the closest integer, i.e.,
rounding $30.49 down to $30 and rounding $30.50 up to $31.)