Financial Decision Making Final Project Case analysis: Marriott Corporation Introduction and background The Marriott Corporation‚ an American firm‚ was founded in 1927 by J.Willard Marriot.The company began as a small beer stand and soon began to sell food and provided lodging that expanded rapidly. With the help of his wife Alice‚ the family owned business had 45 restaurants in nine states by 1940 and grew into one of the leading service companies. The Company has three major lines
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Questions Case #5 – Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital 1. Are the four components of Marriott’s financial strategy consistent with its growth objective? 2. How does Marriott use its estimate of its cost of capital? Does this make sense? 3. What is the weighted average cost of capital for Marriott Corporation? a. What risk free rate and risk premium did you use to calculate the cost of equity? b. How did you measure Marriott’s cost of debt? 4. If Marriott used a single corporate
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Marriott Corporation (A) Introduction In 1927 J.W. Marriott Sr. founded the Marriott Corporation (MC) and during the 1980s experienced a huge growth. Marriott’s main strategy in those days was developing hotel properties around the world and selling these properties to outside investors while retaining lucrative long-term management contracts. MC was a conservative company and it stressed the themes of careful attention on the details‚ the organization and its employees. Quality was the one of the
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Marriott Corporation The Cost of Capital Author Student Number 董晖 林桐 吴正浩 祝承懿 Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance‚ Shanghai Jiao Tong University Table of Contents Background The hurdle rate is the required return or opportunity cost of each division and company. Only project with positive NPV discounted by hurdle rate will be invested‚ and the total return of Marriott up to all projects invested. Though there are many subjective aspects in estimation
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Introduction Part 1 of this paper will look at the three most common models used for estimating the rate of return for a given company; dividend growth‚ Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT). The board of directors for Apple Computer Corporation will receive this report‚ and based on the findings and analysis included‚ Apple will be given a recommendation as to the cost equity model they should implement to estimate their future rate of returns. This report
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financial statements Pinnacle is a medium-sized corporation‚ with total assets of $115‚434‚790‚ which suggests a fairly large number of external users rely on the financial statements. The Board of Directors has considered selling the Machine-Tech division. This sparks up interest to the users as to find out the reason behind it. It currently has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.66. But‚ the Board of Directors has decided to raise a significant amount of debt to finance the construction of a new manufacturing
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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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1. What is the expected value of the company in one year‚ with and without expansion? Would the company’s stockholders be better off with or without expansion? Why? (Ross‚ Westerfield‚ Jaffe‚ & Jordan‚ 2011) Without Expansion | 0.3 * 11‚000‚000 | = 3‚300‚000 | 0.5 * 17‚500‚000 | = 8‚750‚000 | 0.2 * 22‚500‚000 | = 4‚500‚000 | Total | 16‚550‚000 | With Expansion | 0.3 * 13.000‚000 | =39‚000‚000 | 0.5 * 24‚000‚000 | =12‚000‚000 | 0.2 * 28‚500‚000 | =5‚700‚000 | Total
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the various features of debt and equity and their impact an organization. While evaluating debt and equity‚ an investment banker also has to consider the unique characteristics of the organization’s dealings while ensuring that the organization’s requirements are met. Debt CapitalDebt capital includes all long-term borrowing incurred by the firm. The cost of debt was found to be less than the cost of other forms of financing. The relative inexpensiveness of debt capital is because the lenders take
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The Oceanic Corporation (Determining the Cost of Capital) Larry Stone wants to estimate the firm’s hurdle rate because it is a benchmark for how well the company needs to do on a project in order to at least break even. The higher the hurdle rate‚ the riskier the project will have to be and the lower the hurdle rate is‚ the safer the project will be for a company. A company should strive for a financing mix that minimizes the hurdle rate and matches the assets being financed. If there
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