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. 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
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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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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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How to Calculate Beta Beta refers to the volatility of a particular stock compared against the volatility of the entire stock market or‚ in practice‚ a representative index of that market‚ such as the Standard and Poor ’s (S&P) 500. Beta is an indicator of how risky a particular stock is and is used to evaluate its expected rate of return. Beta is one of the fundamentals stock analysts consider when choosing stocks for their portfolios‚ along with price-to-earnings ratio‚ shareholder ’s equity
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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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How to Calculate your adjusted Active Duty service date (ADSD) and resulting year group (YG). See MILPERSMAN 1000-030 for definition of ADSD. The year group is the fiscal year in which an adjusted ADSD falls. To determine your adjusted ADSD and YG‚ follow these steps: 1. Total all active service time‚ including active component (regular Navy) service‚ mobilization‚ ADSW‚ ADT‚ AT‚ CANREC‚ and voluntary recall. Do not include drills (inactive duty training (IDT)‚ inactive duty training travel (IDTT))
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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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selling price of the product. Step 2: Calculate unit revenue or price of the product under question Determination of per unit revenue is quite easy. It is the per unit selling price of any product. Therefore‚ if you know the per unit selling price then it is your revenue earned per unit of the product. However‚ if per unit price is unknown then dividing total sales by the number of units produced can also fetch you the per unit price. It is better to calculate the per unit revenue because contribution
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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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