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    COOPER Cooper Industries’ Corporate Strategy (A) Brayan J. Coin 5/3/2010   Prepare: Cooper Industries’ Corporate Strategy 1. What is Cooper’s corporate strategy? How is Cooper Industries adding corporate value to its portfolio of businesses? Would you recommend any changes in corporate strategy? Cooper’s corporate strategy is diversification through acquisitions and mergers. This diversification is in both related and non-related businesses to lessen its dependence on the capital

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    22-03-2012 Morena Xodo (matr. 639471) COOPER INDUSTRIES’ CORPORATE STRATEGIES Cooper industries’ is a broad company that strongly uses M&A strategy of diversification. But diversification for Cooper doesn’t mean just ‘adding‚ adding and more adding’. Division managers seek for ‘complementary acquisition’ defined as logical extensions of Cooper’s existing products or markets; furthermore they keep examining what they have‚ not being afraid to get rid of companies that have served their useful

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    Case Analysis Cooper Industries Cooper Industries was organized in 1919 as a manufacturer of heavy machinery and equipment. By the mid-1950s it was a leading producer of engines and massive compressors used to force naturalgas through pipelines and oil out of wells. Management was concerned‚ however‚ over its heavy dependence on sales to the oil and gas industries and the violent fluctuation of earnings caused bythe cyclical nature of heavy machinery and equipment sales. Although the company’s

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    1. If you were Mr. Cizik of Cooper Industries‚ would you try to acquire Nicholson File Company in May 1972? Why? If I were Mr. Cizik of Cooper Industries‚ my decision would be trying to acquire Nicholson File Company. Why? For 3 reasons: 1. Nicholson File Company is a company that is financially healthy. With increase in sales in the last 5 years. Today is a very liquid company. Their liabilities are very well controlled. Opportunity cost reduction due to the merger and thus increases margins

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    1. Why do think Larry Stone wants to estimate the firm’s hurdle rate? Is it justifiable to use the firm’s weighted average cost of capital as the divisional cost of capital? Please explain. (10% weighting) Answer The hurdle rate is the rate of return a firm has to offer finance providers to induce them to buy and hold financial security. (Arnold‚2007). This is also known as cost of capital or weighted average cost of capital. The returns offered by alternative securities with the same risk

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    weighted average cost of capital (WACC) to be 8.3%. I find error in this calculation as a result of the following points of disagreement: a) Weighting of Capital Structure: Use of book values of capital rather than the market values b) Cost of Debt Calculation: Incorrect method for calculating debt c) Tax Rate: Use of a tax rate derived from the summation of state and statutory taxes instead of the firm’s marginal tax rate 2. Revised Calculation of WACC: WACC reflects the weighted average

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    ESAN UNIVERSITY FINANCE I Professor: LUIS A. PIAZZON‚ PH.D Cooper IndustriesInc. By Melissa Lezameta Támara Alfonso Christian García Miguel Amable CASE: COOPER INDUSTRIESINC. Following are the answers to the case: 1. If you were Mr. Cizik of Cooper Industries‚ would you try to gain control of Nicholson File Company in May 1972? Methodology We have taken the flowing steps for this analysis: * Determine the value of the Nicholson File Company as a whole. For

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    X. Weighted average cost of capital (WACC) The valuation of Abercrombie & Fitch Co. is based discounting future cash flows and economic profit‚ for that the weighted average cost of capital is needed. The WACC is the opportunity cost when investing in Abercrombie & Fitch Co. opposed to other investments with a similar risk. Investors want their return to excess the WACC before it can be considered a good investment; since people in general are risk averse‚ they want compensation for taking on risk

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    Case 1: Will Cooper Will Cooper had spent a total of sixteen years as a successful oil company service station lessee-operator1 in Halifax. In the fall of 1988‚ he was approached by the owner of another service station who wanted to sell his operation to Cooper. Cooper rejected the offer‚ but the owner persisted. Cooper eventually agreed to consider the matter seriously‚ committing himself to a decision by early January 1989. This was a genuine opportunity for Cooper to become the owner of his

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    Weighted Average Cost of Capital Introduction and objectives This paper aims at describing a way to compute the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC). This method is often used by company management to determine the economic feasibility of different projects and thus to compute the NPV of a specific project by discounting cash-flows. The WACC determines the return that the company should generate to satisfy its debt-holders. For the company‚ it consists in a tool for projects decision-making

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