Introduction: Midland Energy Resources‚ Inc. is a global energy company with its operations in three divisions – Oil and gas exploration‚ Refining and Marketing and Petrochemicals. The company has been there for 120 years and in 2007 had more than 80‚000 employees. It has been a very profitable company with reported operating revenue of $248.5 billion and operating income of $42.2 billion in 2006. The primary goals of Midland’s financial strategy are to fund overseas growth‚ invest in value-creating
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Midland Energy Resources‚ Cost of Capital The case is about how Janet Mortensen‚ senior vice president of project finance for Midland Energy Resources‚ prepare her annual cost of capital estimates for midland and each of its three divisions for her company. Midland was a global energy company with operations in oil and gas exploration and production (E&P)‚ refining and marketing(R&M)‚ and petrochemicals. Estimates of cost of capital prepared by Mortensen were used in many analyses within
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ESE 540 Case Study 1: Midland Energy Resources‚ Inc.: Cost of Capital Team S As a profitable company that has been incorporated more than 120 years and with more than 80‚000 employees‚ Midland Energy Resources provides a wide range of operation and services‚ which can be concluded with three
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Janet Mortensen‚ senior vice president of project finance at Midland Energy Resources‚ is in the process of preparing her annual cost of capital estimates for Midland and each of its three divisions (oil and gas exploration and production (E&P)‚ refining and marketing (R&M)‚ and petrochemicals). These estimates are used in many analyses within Midland‚ including capital budgeting decisions‚ financial accounting‚ performance appraisals‚ M&A proposals‚ and stock repurchase decisions. There has been
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estimate Midland’s cost of capital? What would be the potential consequences of a too high estimate compared to the firm’s “true” cost of capital? What about a too low estimate? The purpose is that the cost capital will be used for capital budgeting‚ financial accounting‚ performance assessment‚ stock repurchases estimations. Also the cost of capital is a necessary basis for the expected growth and forecasted demand. The too high estimated cost of capital means that Midland may miss out on investment
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Midland Energy Resources‚ Inc.: Cost of Capital Background Information: ➢ Janet Mortensen‚ Senior vice preside of project finance for Midland Energy Resources ➢ Midland Has three divisions o Exploring and Production(E&P) o Refining and Marketing (R&M) o Petrochemicals ➢ 2006 Operating Revenue-$248.5 billion Operating Income- $42.2 billion ➢ Estimated Cost of Capital used to analyses o Asset appraisal for capital budgeting o
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Midland Energy Resources 1. For what purposes does Mortensen estimate Midland’s cost of capital? What would be the potential consequences of a too high estimate compared to the firm’s “true” cost of capital? What about a too low estimate? Estimates of the cost of capital were used in many analyses within Midland‚ including asset appraisals for both capital budgeting and financial accounting‚ performance assessments‚ M&A proposals‚ and stock repurchase decisions. Moreover‚ depending
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Midland Energy Resource Case Study Introduction Midland Energy Resources is a fairly successful global energy company which had been incorporated more than 120 years previously and in 2007 had more than 80‚000 employees. It has three main operations‚ oil and gas exploration and production (E&P)‚ refining and marketing (R&M)‚ and petrochemicals. E&P is the most profitable segment of Midland and its net margin over the previous five years was among the highest in the industry. Its largest division
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Midland Energy Resources Midland Energy Resources is a fully integrated energy company with operations in E&P‚ Refining & Marketing (R&M) and Petrochemicals. Capital budgeting at Midland is done using discounted cash flow method and weighted average cost of capital (rwacc). Corporate Weighted Average Cost of Capital‚ rwacc The primary use of the corporate rwacc is valuation (TV=FCF/(rwacc-g)). While the rwacc may be used for evaluating internal projects‚ the usage will be incorrect owing to the
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1.) How does Midland determine that shares are undervalues? Midland Energy Resources determine that the shares are undervalued with a comparing from the intrinsic value of the shares and the actual stock price. The intrinsic value can be computed with the fundamental value of the enterprise minus the market value of debts divided per the number of shares outstanding. For calculate the fundamental value of the enterprise‚ Midland Energy Resources has to sum up all discounted future net cash flows
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