Case Analysis of Nike‚ Inc.: Cost of Capital Apparently‚ the issue of Nike’s case is to control and check the calculation cost of capital done by Joanna Cohen who is the assistant of a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group. But I am willing to tell you that it can be a complex case in which we can doubt about sensitivity analysis done by Kimi Ford (portfolio manager) because her assumptions such as Revenue Growth Rate‚ COGS / Sales‚ S &A / Sales‚ Current Assets / Sales‚ and Current Liability
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Marriot Corporation : the Cost of Capital. In front of Dan Chores is the issue of recommending three hurdle rates for each of Marriott Corporation’s three divisions‚ which have significant effect on the firm’s financial and operating strategies as well as its incentive compensation. Marriott Corporation had three major lines of business: lodging‚ contract services and restaurants. Also Marriott had its growth objective‚ to remain a premier growth company. The four components of
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[pic] EnCana Corporation -Cost of Capital Nabil Naouli Yong Peng Ahmed Alenazi Raj Kancharapu Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. History 2 a. Top Competitors 4 b. Major Product and Services 5 c. SWOT Analysis 5 3. Calculating Cost of Capital 6 a. Calculating Cost of Equity 7 i. Risk free rate 7 ii. Market Risk Premium 8 iii. Beta 8 b. Calculating Cost of Debt 9 c. Weighted Average Cost of Capital ( WACC ) 10 d. WACC- EnCana Corp. 2010 12 4. Discussion
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Case Study II : Weighted Average Cost of Capital Introduction and objectives This paper aims at describing a way to compute the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC). This method is often used by company management to determine the economic feasibility of different projects and thus to compute the NPV of a specific project by discounting cash-flows. The WACC determines the return that the company should generate to satisfy its debt-holders. For the company‚ it consists in a tool for projects
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Ford unsure of her decision on Nike stock; she proceeded to ask Joanna Cohen to estimate Nike’s weighted average cost of capital. IV. Constraints on Solution Cohen calculated a weighted average cost of capital of 8.4 percent by using the capital asset pricing model for Nike Inc. Cohen’s calculations are incorrect because she used the book value for both debt and equity. When calculating cost of capital‚ the
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Nike Inc.: Cost of Capital The Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) is the overall required rate of return on a firm as a whole. It is important to calculate a firm’s cost of capital in order to determine the feasibility of a particular investment for a firm. I do not agree with Joanna Cohen’s WACC calculation. She calculated value of equity‚ value of debt‚ cost of equity‚ and cost of debt all incorrectly. For value of equity‚ Joanna simply used the number stated on the balance sheet instead
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contract service division. Marriott uses Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) as the hurdle rate‚ and use it to discount the appropriate cash flows when evaluate an investment project. Our goal is to determine the WACC at every division base on the information that the case has provided. First of all‚ we will determine the cost of debt‚ cost of equity and the capital structure for the whole company. Then we will compute for the tax rate‚ and calculate the WACC for the whole company. After this‚
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Marriott Case 1. What is the WACC for Marriott Corporation? Cost of Debt Tax Rate We determined this number by taking income taxes paid/EBITDA = 175.9/398.9 = 44.1% Return on debt There are two clear components of debt: fixed and floating. In order to get the fixed debt rate we took the interest rates on fixed-rate government securities and added the premium
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Case #3 “Marriott Corporation” The Cost of Capital” What is the weighted average cost of capital for the Marriott Corporation and cost of capital for each of its divisions? – What risk-free rate and risk premium did you use to calculate the cost of equity? – How did you measure the cost of debt? – How did you measure the beta for each division? Solution What risk-free rate and risk premium did you use to calculate the cost of equity? – Risk-free rate proxy The risk-free
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Case Study of Cost of Capital at Ameritrade 1-a How can the CAPM be used to estimate the cost of capital for a real business investment decision? CAPM results can be compared to the best expected rate of return that investor can possibly earn in other investments with similar risks‚ which is the cost of capital. Under the CAPM‚ the market portfolio is a well-diversified‚ efficient portfolio representing the non-diversifiable risk in the economy. Therefore‚ investments have similar risk if they
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