Summary Wanting to add Nike’s share to her portfolio‚ Kimi Ford asked her new assistant‚ Joanna Cohen‚ to estimate Nike’s cost of capital. Cohen‚ later‚ came up with the cost of capital of 8.4% that was contradicted to Ford’s cost of capital of 12%. This report points out flaws of Cohen’s assumption and recalculates the WACC to obtain the most accurate cost of capital. In the cost of equity calculation‚ we will use CAPM‚ the dividend discount model (DDM)‚ and the earnings capitalization model (ECM)
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the WACC and why is it important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? Do you agree with Joanna Cohen’s WACC calculation? Why or why not? WACC- The weighted average cost of capital is the rate (percentage) that a company has to pay to its creditors and shareholders to finance assets. It is the “cost” of their worth. Companies raise money from many different types of securities and loans and the various required returns are what make up the cost of capital. WACC is used to decide if an investment is
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Periodic Actual Cost Processing Logic An Oracle White Paper June 2003 Periodic Actual Cost Processing Logic Table of Contents 1.0 Executive Overview ................................................................................... 1 2.0 Introduction................................................................................................. 2 3.0 FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS ...................................................................... 2 4.0 PRE-REQUISITE..............................
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Marriott cost of capital Objective: 1) Calculate the divisional and the company cost of capital and explain the calculation. 2) Evaluate Marriott’s use of company cost-of-capital rate for the individual divisions. Cost of Capital for Lodging Division can be expressed as CC = We*Ce + Wd*Cd. For the weights of debt and equity (We and Wd)‚ the 1988 target-schedule rates of debt-to-assets and debt-to-equity were used as the only measures available in the case. Cost of Equity
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Babe Ruth isn’t human. Indeed he’s not human when we talk about baseball. He’s records are incredible. They cannot be broken by any other human being and for 30 years he has stood number 1 in the hall of fame. Now here are his records. * Batting average: .342 Home runs: 714 Hits: 2‚873 RBI: 2‚213 Pitching W/L record: 94-46 ERA: 2.28 These records are still 1st in the world’s baseball league. Remember that baseball is a game of records and Babe Ruth’s records are still standing 1st which means
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Service Plc-Cost of Capital Objective: Lex service Plc sold its various subsidiaries and other assets in between 1991 and 1993 which provides more than £340 million of funds. To reinvest this huge amount of funds it evaluates many investment options and acquisitions. To evaluate the worth of new investments‚ Lex uses discounted cash flow analysis. In order to employ DCF analysis method‚ discount rate or cost of capital required. Now the question is arises ‘what should be real cost of capital’.
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to the company is 50%. Compute the cost of debt capital. b) Y Ltd. issues Rs.50‚000 8% debentures at a premium of 10%. The tax rate applicable to the company is 60%. Compute cost of debt capital. c) A Ltd. issues Rs.50‚000 8% debentures at a discount of 5%. The tax rate is 50%‚ Compute the cost of debt capital. d) B Ltd. issues Rs.1‚00‚000 9% debentures at a premium of 10%. The costs of floatation are 2%. The tax rate applicable is 60%. Compute cost of debt-capital. -D 2. A company
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company for six years‚ Eco went public in 2009 and is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. As the chief financial officer of a young company with lots of investment opportunities‚ Eco’s CFO closely monitor the firm’s cost of capital. The CFO keeps tabs on each of the individual costs of Eco’s three main financing sources: long-term debt‚ preferred stock‚ and common stock. The target capital structure for Eco is given by the weights in the following table: Source of capital Weight Long-term debt
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Graduate School of Business Administration University Version 2.0 of Virginia UVA-F-1353 Version 2.0 Nike‚ Inc.: Cost of Capital On July 5‚ 2001‚ Kimi Ford‚ a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group‚ a mutual fund management firm‚ pored over analyst write-ups of Nike‚ Inc.‚ the athletic shoe manufacturer. Nike’s share price had declined significantly from the start of the year. Kimi was considering buying some shares for the fund she managed‚ the NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund‚ which invested mostly in
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debt to equity ratio while their loan was outstanding. Ameritrade should use a 6.10% risk free rate when calculating its cost of capital. This is the average of the 20 year bond annualized yield to maturity (on August 31‚ 1997) and the long term historical average annual return (from 1929 1996). The long term bond return was used because it provides an accurate average annual return since it reflects many years. The 20 year bond as of August 31‚ 1997 was used because it is the current yield
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