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    9 Calculating WACC Mullineaux Corporation has a target capital structure of 60 percent common stock‚ 5 percent preferred stock‚ and a 35 percent debt. Its cost of equity is 12.5 percent‚ the cost of preferred stock is 5.5 percent‚ and the cost of debt is 7.2 percent. The relevant tax rate is 35 percent. a. What is Mullineaux’s WACC? b. The company president has approached you about Mullineax’s capital structure. He wants to know why the company doesn’t use more preferred stock financing

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    CAPITAL BUDGETING Cost of Capital Evaluating Cash Flows Payback‚ discounted payback NPV IRR‚ MIRR The Cost of Capital • Cost of Capital Components – Debt – Common Equity • WACC Should we focus on historical (embedded) costs or new (marginal) costs? The cost of capital is used primarily to make decisions which involve raising and investing new capital. So‚ we should focus on marginal costs. What types of long-term capital do organizations use? nLong-term debt nEquity Weighted

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    at 4.5% * JP Morgan has issued an estimate for Expected Market Return at 8.5% * Euribor is 2% * Before tax cost of debt = 5% * Tax rate = 30% Please calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for this firm. 2. You are now asked to calculate the WACC for a toothpaste manufacturer with the following data: * Average share price for last 6 months = €34/ share * Current year’s dividend = €3/ share * Applicable growth rate = 3% * Tax rate =

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    2. What is the maximum price they could expect to pay Monmouth‚ based on an analysis of valuation using discounted cash flow‚ calculation of WACC and terminal value determination? 2. Based on the DCF valuation and using a WACC of 8.25% (the beta assumed to be 1‚ the average beta of comparable firms and the coupon rate to be 7.96%‚ the rate for BB rated companies) and a growth rate of 5.5%. The fair price is $40.4 per share for Robertson‚ lower than the $50 offered by Simmons to sell their

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    as the discount rate in net present value (NPV) project appraisal techniques.1 The weighted-average cost of capital (WACC) represents the overall cost of capital for a company‚ including the costs of equity and cost of debt‚ weighted according to the proportion of each source of finance within the business. In easy words WACC measures a company’s cost to borrow money. The WACC equation is the cost of each capital component multiplied by its proportional weight and then summing: Where: Re

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    1. Why do think Larry Stone wants to estimate the firm’s hurdle rate? Is it justifiable to use the firm’s weighted average cost of capital as the divisional cost of capital? Please explain. (10% weighting) Answer The hurdle rate is the rate of return a firm has to offer finance providers to induce them to buy and hold financial security. (Arnold‚2007). This is also known as cost of capital or weighted average cost of capital. The returns offered by alternative securities with the same risk

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    weighted average cost of capital (WACC) to be 8.3%. I find error in this calculation as a result of the following points of disagreement: a) Weighting of Capital Structure: Use of book values of capital rather than the market values b) Cost of Debt Calculation: Incorrect method for calculating debt c) Tax Rate: Use of a tax rate derived from the summation of state and statutory taxes instead of the firm’s marginal tax rate 2. Revised Calculation of WACC: WACC reflects the weighted average

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    average of the historical market risk premium range of 7.0 to 7.5%). Even though Dixon plans to finance the Collinsville investment with 100% debt‚ this is an internal financial decision‚ whereas cost of capital would be estimated based on market or optimal leverage ratios. Therefore‚ market value-based information on the most comparable sodium chlorate producers (i.e. Brunswick Chemical and Southern Chemicals who specialize in producing sodium chlorate) are obtained to estimate the appropriate unlevered

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    Weighted Average Cost of Capital Introduction and objectives This paper aims at describing a way to compute the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC). This method is often used by company management to determine the economic feasibility of different projects and thus to compute the NPV of a specific project by discounting cash-flows. The WACC determines the return that the company should generate to satisfy its debt-holders. For the company‚ it consists in a tool for projects decision-making‚ whereas

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    X. Weighted average cost of capital (WACC) The valuation of Abercrombie & Fitch Co. is based discounting future cash flows and economic profit‚ for that the weighted average cost of capital is needed. The WACC is the opportunity cost when investing in Abercrombie & Fitch Co. opposed to other investments with a similar risk. Investors want their return to excess the WACC before it can be considered a good investment; since people in general are risk averse‚ they want compensation for taking on risk

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