retain their customer base. Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) for Apple The WACC calculation is a company’s cost of capital in which each category of capital is equally weighted. A firm should use WACC as the discount rate when calculating the Net Present Value (NPV) of any typical project. All capital sources such as common stock‚ preferred stock‚ bonds and all other long-term debt are included in this calculation. As the WACC of a firm increases‚ the beta and rate of return on equity increases
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The BOEING 777 CASE SUMMARY In October 1990 Boeing officially announced the launch of the latest addition to the Boeing family: The Boeing 777. The Boeing 777 is a long range‚ wide-body‚ twin jet engine jet. In this case study we are trying to evaluate the 777 project. This project seems a bit risky since R&D and design expense are very high for this project and the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq has increased the oil prices. 1. We know that there are two ways to increase return on equity RoE
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premium wines‚ while consumption of inexpensive‚ lower quality wine had fallen. As a result of changes in consumption patterns‚ Europe had created a great deal of excess capacity‚ while wineries of the new world (South America) continued to increase vineyard acreage in response to strong demand for high quality wines. The size of the global wine industry was estimated by 155 billion dollars (approximately)‚ where Europe and South America dominated global consumption of wine with a market share of 70%
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Apex Financial Valuations By: Melvin Davis Applied Managerial Finance Phase 3 discussion board Dr. Bilal Makkawi April 24‚ 2013 Abstract After meeting with the CEO and the VP of the company I have been assigned the task to explain and define certain material for the company as the Vice President of finance. In order for everyone to have knowledge of what is about to take place in the upcoming weeks I will be defining and explaining some very vital information on Net Present Value (NPV)
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Nike Inc. Case Number 2 Nike Incorporated’s cost of capital is a vital element when addressing opportunities regarding top-line growth and operating performance. Weighted Average Costs of Capital (WACC) is an essential estimation that is needed in order to determine the amount of interest that will be paid for each additional dollar financed. This translates to be the minimum overall required rate of return that the firm will keep. We disagree with Johanna Cohen’s assessment of Nike due to two
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Heinz: Estimating the cost of capital in uncertain times 1. What is WACC? What is its purpose? 2. What were the yields on the two representative outstanding Heinz-debt issues as of the end of April 2010? What were they one year earlier? 3. What was the WACC for Heinz at the start of fiscal year 2010? What was the WACC one year earlier? Should you consider short-term debt? How reasonable are your interest rates for the firm? For the WACC? What is the market risk premium? What is Beta? How is it typically
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Assessed Discussion Question 1. Define what we mean by the firm’s financing decision and the firm’s investment decision. What entities are on the “other side” of these decisions? Financing decision refers to those decisions related to the liabilities and the stockholders equality sides of the firm’s position statement especially concerning decision on to issue bond. Firms’ investment decision refers to those decisions concerned with the asset side of the firm’s balance sheet dealing with
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7E7 case study is to seek the answer for the project question. Why is Boeing contemplating the launch of the 7E7 project? Is this the good time to do so? How would we know if the 7E7 project will create value? How to estimate the WACC? Is there anything else the board of directors should consider in assessing the financial appeal of this project? Why might the board vote ’yes’ on the 7E7‚ when the cost of capital estimate is greater than the IRR? Why might the board vote ’no’
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2 (Ex. 13.1 - 13.7 GT):) Exercises 13.1 - 13.7 make use of the following data: In 1985‚ General Motors (GM) was evaluating the acquisition of Hughes Aircraft Corporation. Recognizing that the appropriate WACC for discounting the projected cash flows for Hughes was different from General Motors’ WACC‚ GM assumed that Hughes was of approximately the same risk as Lockheed or Northrop‚ which had low-risk defense contracts and products that were similar to those of Hughes. Specifically‚ assume the Hamada
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1) We do not agree with Joanna Cohen’s WACC calculation because she mistakenly used historical data to estimate the future cost of debt. Joanna calculated the cost of debt by taking the interest expense for 2001 and dividing it by the average debt balance. The cost of debt for Nike is the effective rate that it pays on its current debt‚ meaning the yield to maturity of bonds should be used to make an estimate instead of the average debt balance. Through the use of past data‚ the average balance
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