Assignment Source Document: HBS case- Marriott Corporation: cost of capital Prepare a case discussion report. The report must at least address the following issues 1. Are the four components of Marriott’s financial strategy consistent with its growth objective? Marriot has following four financial strategy components * Manage rather than own hotel assets. * Invest in projects that increase shareholders values * Optimize the use of debt in the capital structure * Repurchased
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estimating the cost of equity for Crab Inc., a non-listed chain of restaurants specializing in crab meals. Crab has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2 and pays an interest rate of 5% on its debt. Crab’s operations are highly similar to those of the publicly traded Lobster Inc. and Shrimp Inc., which specialize in lobster meals and shrimp meals, respectively. Assume that none of these companies pays taxes. The risk free rate is 2% and the expected return on the market is 10%. Lobster has a debt-to equity ratio of
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preference of the investor invests the equity mainly in domestic market rather than invest in the foreign market even though they can gain substantial benefit due to international diversification. The term of “equity home bias puzzle” is referring to the concept of holding extremely large proportion of domestic equity compare to foreign equity. This phenomenon also exists in other countries, which the investor seems to ignore the opportunity of investing in foreign equity and focus on local market. This
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free cash flow projections and terminal value by an appropriate cost of capital (weighted average cost of capital for unlevered DCF and cost of equity for levered DCF). In an unlevered DCF (the more common approach) this will yield the company’s enterprise value (aka firm and transaction value), from which we need to subtract net debt to arrive at equity value. Divide equity value by diluted shares outstanding to arrive at equity value per share. * Relative valuation (Multiples) - The second
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The Cost of Capital for Goff Computer, Inc. BUS650: Managerial Finance (MAH1209A) Dr Charles Smith March 18, 2012. The Cost of Capital for Goff Computer, Inc.: 1. Most publicly traded corporations are required to submit 10Q (quarterly) and 10K (annual) reports to the SEC detailing their financial operations over the previous quarter or year, respectively. These corporate fillings are available on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov. Go to the SEC Web site, follow the “Search for Company Filings”
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debt and equity, of the firm. They must also determine the cost of their debt, the cost of their equity, and the cost to acquire new capital. Generally, a firm’s cost of capital is what it costs the firm to acquire money. It may also be thought of as the rate required by investors (lenders or shareholders) for the use of their money. The cost of capital could be the cost of the financing the firm already has or it could be the cost of new financing, which is referred to as the marginal cost of capital
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20% to 50% of stock and has significant influence but |On BS at historical cost plus |N/A |Realized loss on | |not control of the corporation |share of earnings since | |IS, new basis on | | |acquisition less dividends | |BS | |Use Equity Method |received (amortization
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page 28) Cost of Equity * Can be measured with: * CAPM: risk measured relative to a single market factor * Arbitrage pricing model: cost of equity is determined by the sensitivity to multiple unspecified economic factors * Multiple factor model: sensitivity to macroeconomic variables is used to measure risk i. Estimate Risk-Free Rate ii. Estimate Risk Premium iii. Estimate Beta * Unlevered beta: the beta a company would have if it were all equity financed
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NIKE, INC. COST OF CAPITAL Context: Estimating Cost of Equity with different methods. Compute WACC Nike’s current price per share= $ 42.09 Question: Is it undervalued or overvalued to make buy /sell decision? Forecasts for Cash flows, Dividend growth, EPS estimates for NIKE are given. Interest rate #’s, Betas, Book values on debt and equity are given. Also historical performance #s are given. At 12% WACC Nike is overvalued and hence sell decision; At 11.17% correct valuation; WACC
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Marriott Corporation | Case Study – Write Up | Hitesh Gupta & Swapnil Deshpande 2-5-2015 | Q1 what is overall WACC for Marriott Corporation? Ans :- For calculating WACC we need cost of equity for the firm(ke) ,cost of debt(kd) capital structure of the firm and tax rate (t). To calculate cost of debt we chose the long term interest rate on U.S. government bond and added debt rate premium (From Table A debt premium = 1.3%) for Marriott Corporation to it. We chose long term US govt bond
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