CHAPTER 9 THE COST OF CAPITAL (Difficulty: E = Easy‚ M = Medium‚ and T = Tough) Multiple Choice: Problems Easy: Cost of common stock Answer: d Diff: E [i]. Bouchard Company ’s stock sells for $20 per share‚ its last dividend (D0) was $1.00‚ and its growth rate is a constant 6 percent. What is its cost of common stock‚ rs? a. 5.0% b. 5.3% c. 11.0% d. 11.3% e. 11.6% Cost of common stock Answer: b Diff: E [ii]. Your company ’s stock
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Q1: The Target Capital structure for Kaynat Manufacting is 50% common stock‚ 15% preferred stock‚ and 35% debt. If the cost of common equity for the firm is 19.6%‚ the cost of preferred stock is 12.9% and the before tax cost of debt is 9.5% what is the weighted average cost of capital? The firm’s tax rate is 35%. Answer: WACC = (50% x 19.6%) + (15% x 12.9%) + ( 35% x 9.5% x 65% = Q2: The following are the information of a company: |Type of capital |Book value (Tk) |Market
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Since we will need to estimate the discount rate any time the capital structure changes‚ neither WACC nor APV would be reliable alone. Therefore‚ Ms. Zhang should use the combination of WACC and APV methods. As stated above‚ ACC will use the Leverage buy out (LBO) approach‚ which means that the debt to equity ratio of AirThread will not be the same from 2008 to 2012‚ so APV approach would be more suitable to valuate the cash flows between 2008 and 2012. After 2012‚ AirThread will de-lever to
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2. TELETECH CORPORATION 1. How does Teletech Corporation currently use the hurdle rate? Currently Teletech uses a single hurdle rate for both their Telecommunications Services and Products and Services divisions. The hurdle rate is the cost of capital based on an estimate of the corporation’s WACC. 2. Please estimate the segment WACCs for Teletech (see the worksheet in case Exhibit 1). As you do this‚ carefully note the points of judgment in the calculation. Corporate Telecommunications
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Free cash flow In corporate finance‚ free cash flow (FCF) is cash flow available for distribution among all the securities holders of an organization. They include equity holders‚ debt holders‚ preferred stock holders‚ convertible security holders‚ and so on. G. Bennett Stewart - the "economic model of value holds that share prices are determined by just two things: the cash to be generated over the lifetime of a business and the risk of the cash receipts”. GSB (1990)‚ “The Quest for Value”
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Pinkerton security guard firm in the late 1980s Provide executive summary & detailed analysis of value of acquisition Email your group’s bid to GSI before 6 p.m. evening before discussion Be prepared to discuss the case in class (your answers‚ your analysis‚ etc.) 1 Valuation - Use NPV approach How to make investment decisions: 1. Estimate (expected) cash flows in each time period 2. Choose an appropriate discount rate 3. Use discounted cash flow analysis to calculate NPV 4
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Cost of Capital questions and practice problems Questions 1. What does the WACC measure? 2. Which is easier to calculate directly‚ the expected rate of return on the assets of a firm or the expected rate of return on the firm’s debt and equity? Assume you are an outsider to the firm. 3. Why are market-based weights important? 4. Why is the coupon rate of existing debt irrelevant for finding the cost of debt capital? 5. Under what assumptions can the WACC be
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debt outstanding (D) $2 million; kd 10%; ke 15%; shares of stock outstanding (N0) 600‚000; and book value per share $10. Since Gentry’s product market is stable and the company expects no growth‚ all earnings are paid out as dividends. The debt consists of perpetual bonds. a. What are Gentry’s earnings per share (EPS) and its price per share (P0)? b. What is Gentry’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC)? c. Gentry can increase its debt by $8 million‚ to a total of $10 million‚ using the new
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Given the proposed financing plan‚ describe your approach (qualitatively) to value AirThread. Should Ms. Zhang use WACC‚ APV or some combination thereof? Explain. (2 points) * From the statement of AirThread case‚ we know that American Cable Communication want to raise capital by Leveraged Buyout (LBO) approach. This means ACC will finance money though equity and debt to buy AirThread and pay the debt by the cash flows or assets of AirThread. * In another word‚ it’s a highly levered transaction
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CONSTRUCTION OF FREE CASH FLOWS A PEDAGOGICAL NOTE. PART I Ignacio Vélez-Pareja ivelez@javeriana.edu.co Department of Management Universidad Javeriana Bogotá‚ Colombia Working Paper N 5 First version: 5-Nov-99 This version: January 2001 This paper can be downloaded from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=196588 CONSTRUCTION OF FREE CASH FLOWS
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