Analysis Teletech is a business process outsourcing multinational Organization‚ founded in 1982 by Kenneth D.Tuchman and headquartered in Englewood‚ Colorado. Teletech provides services for customer management‚ transaction-based processing‚ database marketing services‚ professional sales and eCommerce. Teletech operates in diverse industries of Automotive‚ Communications and Media‚ Financial Services‚ Government Services‚ Healthcare Services and Technology. The firm is based in 17 countries with
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1. The top management of Teletech Corporation was applying 9.30% as a hurdle rate to all capital projects and as a performance evaluation‚ regardless of the business units. 2. Corporate Telecommunications Services Products and Systems MV asset weights 100% 75% 25% Bond rating A- / BBB+ A BB Pretax cost of debt 5.88% 5.74% 7.47% Tax rate 40% 40% 40% After-tax cost of debt 3.53% 3.44% 4.48% Equity beta 1.15 1.04 1.39 Rf 4.62% 4.62% 4.62% Rm
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(Et al) EXERCISES 1. Consider the following data regarding the cost of capital of an italian auto manufacturing firm: * Capital structure includes 40% debt * Industry average unlevered beta is 1.8 * 10 year Italian Government bond yield is 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
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Case Study 3: Estimating the Cost of Capital 1. Currently Teletech Corporation (TC) uses a single hurdle rate for both their Telecommunications Services (TS) and Products and Services (P&S) divisions. This hurdle rate obtained by an estimate of TC Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)‚ which is calculated at 9.3%. When analyzing critically at this point‚ TS is underperforming with a return on capital (ROC) of 9.1%‚ whereas‚ P&S segment is well over the required rate of return as it is gaining
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Teletech Corporation‚ 2005 Kyle Fortin My recommendation for Teletech Corporation is to change from a constant hurdle rate to the use of two risk-adjusted hurdle rates‚ one for each segment. Teletech’s performance is evaluated based on economic profit calculations. Through this measure‚ the risk-adjusted hurdle rates return a higher amount of profit compared to a single corporate hurdle rate. Currently‚ the firm has been using 9.30% as their hurdle rate‚ and as a result the firm’s share prices
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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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Introduction The Teletech Corporation is a “provider of integrated information movement and management”‚ as it defined itself. It had two main business segments: the first one was Telecommunications Services‚ which provided long-distance‚ local‚ and cellular telephone service‚ accounted for 75% of the market value of the firm; the second one was the Products and Systems segment‚ which produced computing and telecommunications equipment‚ accounted for other 25% of the market value of the firm. The
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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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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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Evolutionary Optimization of Protein Folding ´ ` ´ ¨ Cedric Debes1‚ Minglei Wang2‚ Gustavo Caetano-Anolles2*‚ Frauke Grater1‚3* 1 Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies‚ Heidelberg‚ Germany‚ 2 Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory‚ Department of Crop Sciences‚ University of Illinois‚ Urbana‚ Illinois‚ United States of America‚ 3 CAS-MPG Partner Institute and Key Laboratory for Computational Biology‚ Shanghai‚ China Abstract Nature has shaped the make up of proteins since their appearance
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