CASE 46 THE TIMKEN COMPANY Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives The acquisition of Torrington from Ingersoll-Rand (IR) required a strategy that would meet both the investment and the financing objectives of the Timken Company. In that regard‚ the case provides an excellent example of the principle that investment and financing decisions can be considered independently. In effect‚ Timken captured the positive NPV of Torrington even though Timken was required to increase its leverage beyond
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| | ECONM2021Cases in Financial Management | THE TIMKEN COMPANY | (Word Count: 4000) | Candidate Nos.380843767942568 | | Executive Summary The Timken Company – a leader in the bearing industry‚ is considering acquiring the Torrington Company from Ingersoll-Rand. Torrington – an engineering solutions segment of the Ingersoll-Rand. The main motive of acquisition is to enhance Timken’s market share and product base. Operating synergies are highly expected from this merger with 80 million
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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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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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of USEC. In order to properly value USEC‚ Mackovjak needs to evaluate APC and their contributions to USEC. 2) What is the Weighted Average Cost of Capital for USEC in July 2006? (Assume the expected return on the market is around 11%) WACC= WACC= WACC= .10703 We calculated a = .134 which we calculated using the expected return equation: . Our equation looked similar to this: For the equity we assumed the number of shares outstanding for 2006 which was 86.1 million *10.8 (price per share)
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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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Introduction Timken Company was the leader in Bearings Industry‚ however lately the revenues had been declining owing to its cyclical nature and decreased demand for bearings. Timken was facing increased competition from Europe and Japan who were the leading manufacturers of ball bearings. To fight these imports Timken decided to pursue the strategy of bundling where in it could add additional products and services to its products and provide more value to its customers. Timken then started a companywide
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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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.......................................................... 17 Executive Summary: Timken Company requires a report on its consideration to acquire Torrington from Ingersoll-Rand. This reports provides the needed information on Torrington’s worth‚ price at which Torrington could be acquired and the acquisition strategies to negotiate its deal. The evaluation uses the discounted cash flow analysis using WACC to calculate the value of Torrington worth with synergies. The value turned out to be more
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