Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)-In Class Weir Enterprises Balance Sheet is listed below. The preferred stock currently sells for $15 per share and pays a $1.50 dividend. There are one million common shares outstanding and the stock sells for $30 per share. The common stock has a beta of 1.3, the expected return on the market is 12 percent and the risk-free rate is 4 percent. The bonds pay an 8 percent coupon annually. The bonds have 10 years left to maturity and are currently priced
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WEIGHTED AVERAGE COST OF CAPITAL (WAAC) 4/28/2015 Table of Contents TASK REQUIREMENT 25% 3 WEIGHTED AVERAGE COST OF CAPITAL (WACC) 3 WACC Formula: E /V * Re + D/V *Rd * (1-Tc) 3 DEMONSTRATION OF APPLICATION KNOWLEDGE 55% 5 Describe capital structure 5 Indicate how these might be useful to determine the feasibility of the capital project 5 Recommend which is more appropriate to apply to project evaluation. 5 Define marginal cost of capital 5 ACADEMIC WRITING 20% 7 References
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Calculate Cape Chemical’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Note: round to the nearest whole number. Discuss the theory used by Clarkson to determine Cape Chemical’s optimum target capital structure (30% debt and 70% equity). Cape Chemical’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is 15%. Cape Chemical’s optimum target capital structure theory, used by Clarkson, is considered a systematic approach to funding business activities. Furthermore, the traditional capital structure theory aims to
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The purpose of this memo is to provide Target Corp. senior management with an evaluation of the company’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Since the 2010 financial information is not yet to be finalized, the analysis will use the most currently published financial data to evaluate each component of the WACC, including the company financial structure, cost of debt, and cost of equity. I. Target Corp. Financial Structure According to the consolidated balance sheet on January 30, 2010 (exhibit
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1. Does Pioneer calculate its cost of capital correctly? 2. How should Pioneer’s cost of equity capital be estimated? 3. What is Pioneer’s weighted average cost of capital? 4. Should Pioneer use a single cost of capital or multiple or divisional hurdle rates in evaluating projects and allocating investment funds among divisions? If multiple rates are used, how should they be determined? 5. Should the discount rate for environmental projects vary by division or be the same throughout Pioneer?1
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Laurence Degaetano Date: 5 June, 2016. Deliverable The Weighted Average Cost of Capital I choose Costco Corporation, which is an American based company that sells a variety of merchandise. The company is also a wholesale company and it supplies its products and services to various countries despite the United States of America. The company is traded on NASDAQ with ticker symbol COST. As at 2015, the company had revenue worth US $ 116.553 billion, operating income
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of competition from overseas and rising labor cost. The company must make a decision on how to proceed in the future. To ease their decision process they can use the following: five steps as a project moves from idea to reality: 1. Generating ideas for capital budgeting projects 2. Reviewing existing projects and facilities 3. Preparing proposals 4. Evaluating proposed projects and creating the capital budget, the firm has set of planned Capital expenditures 5. Preparing appropriation requests
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Executive summary In this report we focus on Nike's Inc. Cost of Capital and its financialimportance for the company and future investors. The management of NikeInc. addresses issues both on top-line growth and operating performance. The company's cost of capital is a critical element in such decisions and it isimportant to estimate precisely the weighted average cost of capital (WACC). In our analysis, we examine why WACC is important in decision making andwe show how WACC for Nike Inc. is calculated
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Identify the components of a stock’s realized return. “The realized return is the total realized return that happens during a specific period (Jonathan Berk, 2010, p. 388).” The components consist of the stock price that it was bought, the price it was sold, and also the dividend. To calculate the stock’s realized return begin by dividing the dividend by amount that it was bought and adding it to the difference between the amount that it was sold by the amount that it was bought and finally dividing
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Joanna Cohen to estimate Nike’s cost of capital because her forecast seemed to be incorrect. Ford’s forecast showed that Nike had a discount rate of 12% and was undervalued at it current share price of $42.09. On the other hand, Ford conducted a quick sensitivity analysis that revealed Nike was undervalued at discount rates below 11.17%. What is the weighted average cost of capital (WACC)? The weighted average cost of capital otherwise known as the “WACC” is the capital finding of a company, that
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