WEIGHTED AVERAGE COST OF CAPITAL (WAAC) 4/28/2015 Table of Contents TASK REQUIREMENT 25% 3 WEIGHTED AVERAGE COST OF CAPITAL (WACC) 3 WACC Formula: E /V * Re + D/V *Rd * (1-Tc) 3 DEMONSTRATION OF APPLICATION KNOWLEDGE 55% 5 Describe capital structure 5 Indicate how these might be useful to determine the feasibility of the capital project 5 Recommend which is more appropriate to apply to project evaluation. 5 Define marginal cost of capital 5 ACADEMIC WRITING 20% 7 References
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Case Study: Nike, Inc.: Cost of Capital BUSFIN 4214 Written By: Joe Nau Nau.33@osu.edu Section: 32347 Cost of Capital NorthPoint Group’s strategy consists of identifying and investing in undervalued public companies. Joanna Cohen, an assistant to a portfolio manager at NorthPoint, is asked to help evaluate whether Nike Inc. is undervalued. Analysis by the portfolio manager shows that when Nike’s cash flows are discounted at 12% their shares are overpriced, however, when discounted at rates
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Costs of Financial Distress 16.1 Good Time Company is a regional chain department store. It will remain in business for one more year. The probability of a boom year is 60% and a recession is 40%. It is projected that Good Time will generate a total cash flow of $250 million in a boom year and $100 million in a recession. The firm’s required debt payment at the end of the year is $150 million. The market value of Good Time’s outstanding debt is $108.93 million. Assume a one-period model, risk
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0307-4358.htm Analysis of the effects of ESOP adoption on the company cost of capital Stoyu I. Ivanov Accounting and Finance Department, College of Business, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA, and ESOP adoption 173 Janis K. Zaima Accounting and Finance Department, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine
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it so important to estimate a firms cost of capital? The WACC (weighted average cost of capital) is a percentage figure resulting from a calculation method by which the adequate cost of capital of a firm is expressed. It considers the composition of a company’s funding, be it debt or equity. A corporation whose source of funding is equity by 100 percent will have a WACC equal to the cost of equity. By contrast, a levered company will have to reflect the cost of debt as well. The WACC takes their
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at a 40% rate. It has $5 million in assets and, because it is all equity financed, $5 million in equity. Suppose the firm is considering replacing half of its equity financing with debt financing that bears an interest rate of 8%. a) What impact would the new capital structure have on the firm’s profit, total dollar return to investors, and return on equity? b) Redo the analysis, but now assume that the debt financing would cost 15%. c) Repeat the analysis required for Part a, but now assume that
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paper, we confront both factors. We argue that financial service firms are best valued using equity valuation models, rather than enterprise valuation models, and with actual or potential dividends, rather than free cash flow to equity. The two key numbers that drive value are the cost of equity, which will be a function of the risk that emanates from the firm’s investments, and the return on equity, which is determined both by the company’s business choices as well as regulatory restrictions
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INC.: COST OF CAPITAL What is WACC and why it is important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? Do you agree with Joanna Cohan’s WACC calculation? What is WACC and why it is important? Do you agree with Joanna Cohan’s WACC calculation? WACC (Weighted average cost of capital) is the minimum return that a company must earn on existing asset base on satisfy its creditors, owners and other providers of capital WACC is important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital because: The cost of capital
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company’s cost of capital? A corporate cost of capital can be specifically defined as the opportunity cost of all capital invested in the enterprise. Opportunity cost refers to what is given up as a consequence of a decision to use a scarce resource, capital invested refers to the total amount of cash invested into a business, and this includes both debt and equity components used in the investment in the enterprise. A three step process is used to calculate a company’s weighted average cost of capital
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• The first is debt. The essence of debt is that you promise to make fixed payments in the future (interest payments and repaying principal). If you fail to make those payments, you lose control of your business. • The other is equity. With equity, you do get whatever cash flows are left over after you have made debt payments. Aswath Damodaran! 4! Global Patterns in Financing… Aswath Damodaran! 5! And a much greater dependence on bank loans outside the US…
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