Wm. Wrigley Jr‚ Company Capital Structure Wm. Wrigley Jr‚ Company Capital Structure 8/23/2013 8/23/2013 EFB340 Finance Capstone Case Study 1 Group S3 Dat Bui (N8360928) JeongHwan KWON (N8400822) Honghu Ye (N8106258) EFB340 Finance Capstone Case Study 1 Group S3 Dat Bui (N8360928) JeongHwan KWON (N8400822) Honghu Ye (N8106258) Table of Contents Abstract1 1.0 Introduction2 2.0 Analysis Share price2 Weighted Average Cost of Capital2 Earnings
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are examples of case study write-ups made by students of the 30017 Corporate Finance course in 2012-2013. The underlying case was “Hutchison Whampoa Limited: The Capital Structure Decision”. The write-ups were evaluated as “excellent” and the students have agreed for their work to be distributed. All rights to their work remain with them. The instructions that students received were the following: “Your assignment is to provide a written analysis of the case. We will discuss the case in class as indicated
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University of Phoenix Material Capital Budgeting Case Your company is thinking about acquiring another corporation. You have two choices—the cost of each choice is $250‚000. You cannot spend more than that‚ so acquiring both corporations is not an option. The following are your critical data: Corporation A Revenues = $100‚000 in year one‚ increasing by 10% each year Expenses = $20‚000 in year one‚ increasing by 15% each year Depreciation expense = $5‚000 each year
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A company’s capital structure is a very important component of a company’s financial health and longevity. The capital structure should maximize total net profit and overall shareholder wealth. An optimal proportion of equity and debt as a company’s capital structure is an indication of a well-managed and successful company and should be a goal for most corporations. Beverly Flax and Rick Rosenfield founded California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) in 1985 in Beverly Hills‚ California. It is a casual dining
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MM with capital structure In 1958‚ Modigliani and Merton Miller in their classical paper “The Cost of Capital‚ Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment”‚ talked something about capital structure as follow: Consider any company j and let Xj stand as before for the expected return on the assets owned by the company (that is‚ its expected profit before deduction of interest). Denote by Di the market value of the debts of the company; by Sj the market value of its common shares; and by V j
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Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2012‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 1 Capital Structure and Firm Performance in the Financial Sector: Evidence from Australia Vedran Skopljak School of Economics and Finance‚ La Trobe University Kingsbury Drive‚ Bundoora‚ Vic 3086‚ Australia Tel: 61-3-9479-1111 E-mail: vedran.skopljak@latrobe.edu.au Robin H. Luo (Corresponding author) Department of Finance‚ Wuhan University Luojia Hill‚ Wuhan 430072‚ China Tel: 86-27-6875-2740 E-mail: robin.h.luo@gmail.com
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Chpt.16 Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Financial Leverage Chapter Outline Financial Leverage Effect of leverage Break-even Analysis Homemade Leverage M&M Propositions (I & II): optimal D/E? No tax Corporate tax Corporate tax & bankruptcy costs Corporate & personal taxes Arbitrage The Capital-Structure Question and The Pie Model The value of a firm is defined to be the sum of the value of the firm’s debt and the firm’s equity. V=E+B If the goal of the management of the firm is
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A company with low gearing is one that is mainly being funded or financed by share capital (equity) and reserves‚ whilst the one with a high gearing is mainly funded by loan capital. Now the question to address is which of the two (equity and debt) is cheaper to the company? The answer is that cost of debt is cheaper than cost of equity. This is because debt is less risky than equity and the tax advantage of debt over equity as discussed below: Risk: debt is less risky than equity because: • the
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The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company: capital structure‚ valuation‚ and cost of capital Teaching Note Synopsis In June 2002‚ a managing director of an active-investor hedge fund was considering the possible gains from increasing the debt capitalization of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. Wrigley had been conservatively financed and at the date of the case‚ carried no debt. The tasks for the student are to: Estimate the potential change in value from relevering Wrigley using adjusted present value analysis
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Capital Structure‚ Profitability and Market Structure: Evidence from Textile Industries in Bangladesh. Introduction In corporate finance‚ the academic contribution of Modigliani and Miller (1958‚ 1963) about capital structure irrelevance and the tax shield advantage paved the way for the development of alternative theories and a series of empirical research initiatives on capital structure. The alternative theories include the trade-off theory‚ the pecking order/asymmetric information theory
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