Blaine Kitchenware Questions: 1) Do you believe that Blaine’s current capital structure and payout policies are appropriate? Why or why not? 2) Should Dubinski recommend a large share repurchase to Blaine’s board? What are the primary advantages and disadvantages of such a move? 3) Consider the following share repurchase proposal: Blaine will use $209 million of cash from its balance sheet and $50 million in new debt bearing an interest rate of 6.75% to repurchase 14 million shares
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Midland Energy Resources‚ Inc. 1.The Use of Cost of Capital First of all‚ 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
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will be discussed as follows 1) importance of energy cost; 2) project’s cash flows; 3) cost of capital; 4) choose an engine 5) evaluation 6) accept or reject. We should accept the project because of the positive NPV and high IRR. We will gain $532 million in wealth which is a big money on the scale like this. The company has a bond rating of AA that makes the risk relatively low. So we should definitely say yes. Issues Importance of Energy Cost Road King Trucks‚ Inc. is a truck manufacturing company
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methods are analyzed in regards to an optimal capital structure and maximizing share holder value (value of the firm). A compilation of historical data and future predictions were used for the basis of this report‚ and recommendations. Literature Review The following paper will draw on Modigliani and Miller’s (1958) theorem of capital structure to determine whether an ‘optimal’ level for Wrigley’s can in fact be reached. A further discussion of agency costs and incentives by Jensen‚ Meckling (1976)
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Corporation has a target capital structure of 60 percent common stock‚ 5 percent preferred stock‚ and a 35 percent debt. Its cost of equity is 12.5 percent‚ the cost of preferred stock is 5.5 percent‚ and the cost of debt is 7.2 percent. The relevant tax rate is 35 percent. a. What is Mullineaux’s WACC? b. The company president has approached you about Mullineax’s capital structure. He wants to know why the company doesn’t use more preferred stock financing‚ since its cost less than debt.
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JetBlue IPO WACC The estimation of cost of capital for JetBlue proved to be a difficult process. Considering the company has an unfavorable capital structure‚ due to the fact that they are acquiring a large number of aircrafts‚ simply taking the weights of debt and equity are not acceptable. In order to accurately judge the discount rate the multiples method is necessary. The comparison was to a leading low-fare airline company‚ Southwest. Another critical point is that taking the book
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FAMILY NAME: ______________________________________ OTHER NAME(S): ______________________________________ STUDENT ID: ______________________________________ SIGNATURE: ______________________________________ PAPER ID: 00615 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SCHOOL OF BANKING AND FINANCE FINS1613: BUSINESS FINANCE SEMESTER 1 2012 FINAL EXAM 1. TIME ALLOWED – 3 hours 2. THIS EXAMINATION PAPER HAS 19 PAGES 3. TOTAL NUMBER OF QUESTIONS – 45 Multiple Choice
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Value of the Firm‚ Market Value of Equity‚ Return Rate on Capital and the Optimal Capital Structure Chao Chiung Ting Michigan State University‚ USA E-mail: tingtch7ti@aol.com Received: September 4‚ 2012 doi:10.5430/ijfr.v3n4p1 Abstract The firm should pursue both maximum return rate on capital and maximum return rate on equity simultaneously. Maximum return rate on capital is the primary goal for firms because maximum return rate on capital guarantees efficiency. Therefore‚ maximum profit‚ maximum
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the William Wrigley Jr. Company (referred to as Wrigley). The chosen capital structure is based on efforts to minimize the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) while also reducing increases in the cost of equity. The following pertains to analysis performed at four proposed levels of debt. In the base case‚ the corporation increases its debt level to 3 billion dollars. In this situation‚ the cost of equity is 11.05% and the cost of debt is 13%. This creates a WACC of roughly 10.302%. Given the financial
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Globalizing the Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting at AES (Case Analysis) AES Corporation AES was founded by Roger Stan and Dennis Bakke in 1981 after the Public Utility Regulation Policy Act (PURPA)‚ which created a market for independent power producer. In 1980s‚ the company experienced rapid growth in United States and went into public in 1991. From early 1990s‚ AES began to explore offshore markets and made remarkable success. In the 12 years since it went public‚ AES has hold more
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