L.Spight FIN100 – Week 10 Integrative Case Study Due – 9/5/10 Case Information: You work for HydroTech‚ a large manufacturer of high pressure industrial water pumps. The firm specializes in natural disaster services‚ ranging from pumps that draw water from lakes‚ ponds‚ and streams in drought stricken area to pumps that remove high water volumes in flooded area. You report directly to the CFO. Your boss has asked you to calculate HydroTech’s WAAC in preparation for an executive retreat
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If the company uses its overall WACC it may have divisions accept projects with returns below their respective WACC which will result in losses and vice versa. 2. The Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) is as average that reflects the expected return on all of a companies securities. For the WACC of Marriott as a whole represents tall of Marriott’s divisions as one company. Marriott’s divisions are lodging‚ restaurant and contract services. To calculate the WACC a risk free rate was used of 8
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cost of capital is an essential component in WACC. WACC is composed of cost of equity and cost of debt.The Mortensen’s estimates are used in various ways including asset appraisals for both capital budgeting and financial accounting‚ performance assessments‚ M&A proposals and stock repurchases at division ‚business unit level and corporate level. 2. The Calculation for Wacc Midland’s wacc at the corporate level is calculated based on the formula WACC=rd*(D/V)*(1t)+re*(E/V). We calculate the
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Chapter 11: The Basics of Capital Budgeting 1. A firm should never accept a project if its acceptance would lead to an increase in the firm’s cost of capital (its WACC). a. True b. False ANSWER: False 2. Because “present value” refers to the value of cash flows that occur at different points in time‚ a series of present values of cash flows should not be summed to determine the value of a capital budgeting project. a. True b. False ANSWER: False 3. Assuming that their NPVs based on the firm’s
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Weighted Average Cost of Capital What It Measures The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is the rate of return that the providers of a company’s capital require‚ weighted according to the proportion each element bears to the total pool of capital. Why It Is Important WACC is one of the most important figures in assessing a company’s financial health‚ both for internal use (in capital budgeting) and external use (valuing companies on investment markets). It gives companies an insight into
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2. Calculate Midland’s corporate WACC. Be prepared to defend you specific assumptions about the various inputs to the calculations. Is Midland’s choice of the MRP appropriate? If not‚ what recommendations would you make and why? In order to calculate Midland’s overall corporate WACC we must first determine the cost of equity and the cost of debt. The cost of equity can be defined as the risk-weighted projected return required by investors‚ where the return is largely unknown. Therefore the
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the Impact of Leverage The SML and WACC § Consider 100% equity financed firm § Beta = 1 E/V = 1! D/V = 0! § WACC =? E D WACC = × RE + × RD × (1 − TC ) = RE V V WACC = Cost of equity from CAPM [ ] WACC = RE = R f + β × E [RM ] − R f = E [RM ] Beta =1! 2 SML and WACC SML Expected Return WACC = E[RM] Rf [ R f + β × E [RM ] − R f ] β=1 Beta 3 Accept Projects Y and/or Z? Expected Return IRRz WACC = E[RM] IRRY SML Z Y Rf
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PART 4 Long-Term Financial Decisions CHAPTERS IN THIS PART 11 12 13 The Cost of Capital Leverage and Capital Structure Dividend Policy INTEGRATIVE CASE 4 O’GRADY APPAREL COMPANY CHAPTER 11 The Cost of Capital INSTRUCTOR’S RESOURCES Overview This chapter introduces the student to an important financial concept‚ the cost of capital. The mechanics of computing the sources of capital-debt‚ preferred stock‚ common stock‚ and retained earnings are reviewed. The relationship between
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term lasting for 10-30 years. Levered β @ target D/E ratio Ratio=42.2% The target ratio defines the target D/E that the company requires to reach for the credit rating to be applicable. E&P Weighted Average Cost of Capital‚ rE&P-wacc Division wise WACC is essential as each business line has different risk-return profile. Since individual divisional stocks are not traded in the market‚ β for E&P has been calculated by revenue based weighted average of pure-play E&P companies. However it
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increasing shareholder value‚ optimizing the use of debt‚ and repurchasing their undervalued shares. Marriott Corporation relied on measuring the opportunity cost of capital for investments by utilizing the concept of Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC). In April 1988‚ VP of project finance‚ Dan Cohrs suggested that the divisional hurdle rates at the company would have a key impact on their future financial and operating strategies. Marriott intended to continue its growth at a fast pace by relying
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