| Marriott Case | Cost of Capital | | Facts: Dan Cohrs is preparing the annual hurdle rates for the three divisions of Marriot Corporation (Lodging‚ Contracts‚ and Restaurants) which will have a significant impact on the firm’s financial and operating strategies. Marriott’s has been truthful to its operating strategy to remain a premier growth company‚ Marriott’s sales and earnings per share have doubled over the last four years. In 1987 Marriot’s sales rose 24%‚ the return on equity
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QUESTION 1 Are the four components of Marriott´s financial strategy consistent with its growth objective? With regards to the overall strategy of primarily being a premier growth company‚ we analyze the 4 components as follows: 1. Manage rather than own hotel assets • Marriott developed the projects‚ established long term management contracts consisting of 3% of revenues and 20% of the profits. The assets were then sold to partners. Not owning hotels provided Marriot with greater liquidity
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Brief overview of Marriott group of hotels Marriott group of hotels is association with International Tourism partnership. It is an association with organizations having a participation of organizations inside the travel and tourism industry. The point of International Tourism Partnership is to give the capacity and information to the improvement of handy answers for a dependable business. The establishing part of International Tourism partnership is Marriott. It has helped towards the ’practical
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Executive Summary We found the weighted average cost of capital for Marriott as a whole to be 9.68%. The divisions of Lodging‚ Contract Services and Restaurants had WACCs of 8.14%‚ 13.33%‚ and 9.63% respectively. The only variable between these divisions that remains consistent is the tax rate. Marriott has a target rate for each of the divisions’ capital structures‚ which affects their debt and equity betas. Also‚ there are stark differences between the betas in the segments‚ as well as the
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Marriott Bedding Program CASE STUDY Marriott Bedding Program Marriott International Uses Project Management to Upgrade Bedding Worldwide Headquartered in Washington‚ DC‚ Marriott International‚ Inc. is one of the leading hospitality companies in the world with more than 2‚400 properties in 68 countries and territories. As a management company‚ Marriott is responsible for daily operations in both company-operated and franchised properties. Marriott has an extensive portfolio of brands
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MARRIOTT HOTELS AND RESORTS Motivate employees‚ train them‚ care about them‚ and make winners of them. At Marriott‚ we know that if we treat our employees correctly‚ they’ll treat the customers right‚ and if the customers are treated right‚ they’ll come back. Bill Marriot Jr. If a customer leaves a hotel or resort satisfied with the property and the service‚ there is a much better chance that they will return. That is an obvious reality in the industry‚ and in the forefront of the customer
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Marriott Corporation Abstract Marriott Corporation has three divisions – lodging‚ contract services and restaurants – with dissimilar operations. The company uses three separate hurdle rates for the three divisions to value the proposed projects. It is believed that this strategy is more appropriate that using a single firm-wide discount rate because the operations of the three divisions differ drastically. However‚ the company has to ensure that the company uses an appropriate discount rate for
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Issue In this assignment‚ we are asked to compute the WACC of Marriott Corporation and each of the company’s three divisions. Our approach is outlined in the next section. We made a series of assumptions regarding either the available data or the missing information. This has been explained below‚ in a separate section. Approach We applied the following formulae to calculate the WACC: Our assumptions are explained in the next section. The table below presents the approach for calculations
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president of project finance at Marriott Corporation‚ is preparing his annual recommendations for the hurdle rates for each of Marriott’s three divisions: lodging‚ contract services‚ and restaurants. However‚ this is a complicated process because finding beta‚ cost of debt‚ and cost of equity in order to find weighted average cost of capital‚ or WACC‚ must be calculated using proxy firms and divisional data. The firm’s use of WACC is directed towards analysis of the company’s future capital investments
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Marriott Corporation Case Study 1) The Marriott Corporation implemented for key elements into their financial strategy: manage rather than own hotel assets invest in projects that increase shareholder value‚ optimize the use of debt in the capital structure‚ and repurchase undervalued shares 2) Marriott uses WACC to measure the opportunity costs of capital of investments with similar risks. Each division of Marriott has a different cost of capital‚ based on debt capacity‚ debt cost‚ and equity
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