financial performance include consolidated revenues that were up more than 4% over the previous year‚ reported EPS growth at 11.3% to $2.16 per share‚ return of $15.6 to shareholders through share buybacks and strong dividends. About 43.8% of the total capital of the company comes from debt and the remaining comes from equity. The cost of the different components of its capital structure are – debt: 2.92% (after-tax cost)‚ and equity: 9.49%. The WACC is 6.61%‚ based on the capital structure outlined
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UNIVERSITY On Capital Structure - Trends‚ Determinants & Issues in India with reference to banking sector: A case study of YES Bank. BY Shalini Shashidharan. M.Com. June 2013 Introduction – Background study The theory of capital structure is an important reference theory in any enterprise’s financing policy. The capital structure includes mixture of debt and equity financing and finding an optimal capital structure is one of the most important and
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The data has been sourced from Prowess database of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). For the purpose of this study‚only final dividend and interim dividend. Unlike the firms in developed countries that pay quarterly dividends‚ Indian IT companies typically pay only one dividend during a year. A few firms do pay interim dividends‚ however‚ data grading these are not readily accessible and it is extremely difficult to get such data for a reasonable number of years. Hence‚ in the present
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Capital Structure Analysis – Walmart September 13‚ 2011 GB550: Financial Management Unit 3 Professor Ana Machuca Part I - The Abstract Wal-Mart is one of the biggest retail chains of the world (Sampson‚ 2008). Hence it’s very extensive financial reports were studied carefully in detail‚ in order to understand and evaluate the company’s operations and performance in terms of financial ratios and relevant cost drivers and hence suggest recommendations to improve the overall business
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EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION THE FIRM SIZE EFFECT * K. C. CHAN Ohio State Universiry‚ Columbw‚ OH 43210‚ USA OF Nai-fu CHEN and David A. HSIEH University of Chicago‚ Chicago‚ IL 60637‚ USA Received August 1983‚ final version received April 1985 We investigate the firm size effect for the period 1958 to 1977 in the framework of a multi-factor pricing model‚ The risk-adjusted difference in returns between the top five percent and the bottom five percent of the NYSE firms is about one to two percent
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SELDOM CORPORATE India recognizes a PSU (Public Sector Unit) and considers its executives worthy of an award for efficiency and business performance. In the corporate arena‚ ICICI‚ HDFC‚ HSBC etc. are the banks which are always considered for one award or the other. Some PSU banks have won awards in the past but those awards were for achieving computerization and other such ‘achievements’. Seldom has a a PSU bank been seen by corporate India as a potential avenue and as one capable of scaling new
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Business Financing and the Capital Structure Business Financing and the Capital Structure Pamela D. Forbes Strayer University Dr. John Karaffa December 01‚ 2013 Business Financing and the Capital Structure Data gathering‚ planning‚ preparing‚ presenting‚ implementing and the on-going monitoring
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Abstract It is well known that firms are more likely to issue equity when their market values are high‚ relative to book and past market values‚ and to repurchase equity when their market values are low. We document that the resulting effects on capital structure are very persistent. As a consequence‚ current capital structure is strongly related to historical market values. The results suggest the theory that capital structure is the cumulative outcome of past attempts to time
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and Cost of Debt Capital for Private Firms: Evidence from Finland Jukka Karjalainen Department of Business University of Eastern Finland April 10‚ 2010 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the value relevance of the perceived audit quality in terms of who audits‚ as well as the audit outcomes in terms of the auditor’s opinion and accruals quality‚ in the pricing of debt capital for privately-held firms by examining a large sample of privately-held Finnish firms. The findings indicate
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industry demand and price‚ along with rising fuel prices and an economic recession. These pressures now force Du Pont to source its financing through debt‚ foregoing its risk averse capital structure policy in the past. It now aims to determine the most feasible capital structure that will enable it to finance capital expenditures vital to its competitive advantage while maintaing its financial flexibility. Du Pont now faces two alternatives: 1) Reduce the debt/total capitalization ratio
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