Case #3 “Marriott Corporation” The Cost of Capital” What is the weighted average cost of capital for the Marriott Corporation and cost of capital for each of its divisions? – What risk-free rate and risk premium did you use to calculate the cost of equity? – How did you measure the cost of debt? – How did you measure the beta for each division? Solution What risk-free rate and risk premium did you use to calculate the cost of equity? – Risk-free rate proxy The risk-free
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Case 1- Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital Some preliminary questions: 1. What do you think about Marriott’s policy of repurchasing shares? Repurchase whenever stock price < warranted equity value Does this mean the market is inefficient? 2. Why does Marriott manage rather than own hotel assets? Finding limited partners on a hotel project is equivalent to selling private equity in the project Is there any reason to
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allocate costs? How do companies allocate costs? And how this cost allocation can affect the decision making of the company. It is important for the companies to find the proper method to allocate the costs. Cost allocation is an important issue in many companies because many of the costs associated with designing‚ producing and distributing products and services are not easily identified with the products and services that are created. It would have been easier for companies to allocate cost if costs
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Marriot Corporation: Cost of Capital By Xue Fan Background Marriott Corporation began in 1927 with J. Willard Marriott’s root beer stand. Over the next 60 years‚ the business grew into one of the leading companies in industry in United States. In 1987‚ Marriott’s sales grew by 24% and its return on equity stood at 22%. Sales and earnings per share had doubled over the previous 4 years‚ and the company strategy was aimed at continuing this trend. Marriot Corporation had three major lines
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Marriott Case 1. What is the WACC for Marriott Corporation? Cost of Debt Tax Rate We determined this number by taking income taxes paid/EBITDA = 175.9/398.9 = 44.1% Return on debt There are two clear components of debt: fixed and floating. In order to get the fixed debt rate we took the interest rates on fixed-rate government securities and added the premium
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Question 6 What is the cost of capital for the lodging and restaurant divisions of Marriott? Answer: The cost of capital for lodging is 9.2% and the cost of capital for restaurants is 13.1% Calculation: WACC = (1-t) * rd * (D/V) + re* (E/V) Where: D= market value of DEBT re = aftertax cost of equity E = market value of EQUITY V = D+E rd = pretax cost of debt t = tax rate To calculate the formula above‚ we need to determine each component Tax rate (t) 56% --> calculated before LODGING
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Decisions Involving Alternative Choices Structure: 13.1 Introduction Objectives 13.2 Decision Making 13.3 Types of Costs 13.4 Types of Choices Decisions 13.5 Make or Buy Decisions 13.6 Addition / Discontinuance of a Product line 13.7 Sell or Process Further 13.8 Operate or Shut down 13.9 Exploring New Markets 13.10 Maintaining a desired level of profit 13.11 Summary 13.12 Terminal Questions 13.13 Answers to SAQs and TQs 13.1 Introduction In the previous unit we learnt about Marginal
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(2) reactions to the changes produced by innovation‚ and (3) the elements of an adaptive society. The Cogan and Burgelman (2004) case‚ “Intel Corporation: The DRAM Decision”‚ paired with the aforementioned reading‚ recounts Intel’s encounter with technological change and how they came to exemplify the idea of an adaptive society. Discussion DRAM Decision Throughout its history‚ Intel has centered its strategy on the tenets of technological leadership and innovation (Burgelman‚ 1994). Intel
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does Marriott use its estimate of its cost of capital? Does this make sense? Marriott has defined a clear financial strategy containing four elements. To determine the cost of capital‚ which also acted as hurdle rate for investment decision‚ cost of capital estimates were generated from each of the three business divisions; lodging‚ contract services and restaurants. Each division estimates its cost of capital based on: Debt Capacity Cost of Debt Cost of Equity All of the above are calculated
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1. Marriott uses its’ cost of capital estimates to create a hurdle rate to effectively run operations. Marriott uses these estimates to operate its four financial strategies. These are managing rather then owning hotel assets‚ investing in projects that increase shareholder value‚ optimizing the use of debt in the capital structure and repurchasing undervalued shares. If the company uses its overall WACC it may have divisions accept projects with returns below their respective WACC which will result
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