aims to help Kimi Ford make a decision on her investment of Nike. We choose WACC as our method to estimate the cost of capital‚ which can be used as a discount rate to verify whether Nike is correctly valued in current market. We have mainly four steps to calculate WACC: I. Identify the type of cost of capital; II. Figure out the weights of debt and equity; III. Calculate the cost of debt and equity respectively; IV. Get WACC. After our analysis‚ we conclude that Nike is undervalued at its current
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been incorporated more than 120 years previously and in 2007 had more than 80‚000 employees. It has three main operations‚ oil and gas exploration and production (E&P)‚ refining and marketing (R&M)‚ and petrochemicals. E&P is the most profitable segment of Midland and its net margin over the previous five years was among the highest in the industry. Its largest division is R&M with the Petrochemical division being the smallest. The capital spending in R&M would remain stable and in petrochemicals
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market sales and prices of stocks‚ management presented its plans to improve and perform better. • Third party sources also gave their opinions on whether the stock was a sound investment. WACC CALCULATION: Cost of Capital Calculations: Nike Inc Cohen calculated a weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of 8.3 percent by using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) for Nike Inc. I do not agree with her figure‚ and the reasons to that are as follows: Value of equity The problem with Cohen’s
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Table of contents Introduction TARGET Corp ROIC vs. WACC Target Corp vs. Industry ROIC target Corp vs. Industry Revenue Trend Target Corp Operating Expense vs. Industry operating expense as a percent of revenue Target corp Operating Profit vs industry operating profit as a percent of revenue. target Corp Economic Moat Conclusion Works Cited Table of figures Figure 1 Target Corp ROIC vs WACC; Source: Mergent Online; Annual Studies. Figure 2 Target Corp vs. Industry
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| (Word Count: 4000) | Candidate Nos.380843767942568 | | Executive Summary The Timken Company – a leader in the bearing industry‚ is considering acquiring the Torrington Company from Ingersoll-Rand. Torrington – an engineering solutions segment of the Ingersoll-Rand. The main motive of acquisition is to enhance Timken’s market share and product base. Operating synergies are highly expected from this merger with 80 million cost savings by the end of 2007. The presented analysis‚ recommends
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capital [WACC]. The estimation of Boeing’s WACC must be consistent with the overall valuation approach and the definition of cash flows to be discounted. Note that this process is a forward looking focus and is laden with uncertainty. It is how the assumptions are modeled that many costly mistakes can be made. While finding a rate of return for an individual project‚ it is important to remember that WACC is only appropriate for an individual project. The many factors affecting WACC are:
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confidence in its future operation‚ since Hertz is one of the strongest subsidiaries and revenue sources for Ford. Even though Ford would lose significant value of itself in this transaction‚ the slump in Ford’s main business especially in North American segment and a possible downgrade of its bond rating forced them to conduct drastic financing strategy to recover itself. The company had two alternatives to rid of Hertz: selling to a private bidding group via LBO transaction and listing on public stock exchange
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On the other hand‚ when getting too low estimate on cost of capital‚ midland will estimate the new investment with higher NPV. Midland might waste much money on many bad investments which are overestimated. 2. Calculate Midland’s firm-wide WACC. Make sure you explain clearly your method and your choice of inputs. In particular‚ is Midland’s choice of market risk premium appropriate‚ and if not‚ what recommendations would you make and why? Material: a. Debt is long-term in nature
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Topic 11: Performance Measurement‚ Incentives‚ and Compensation (Ch.23) Scope: A. General issues B. Performance measurement for profit centers - Segment reporting C. C Performance measurement for investment centers - ROI - Residual income; EVA ACCT3210 – Spring 2013 (G Zhang) 1 A. General Issues Purposes of performance measurement Employee motivation (requiring a reward system) Resource allocation Examples of performance measures Financial Fi i l Internal External ROI‚ Income
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operates retail web sites and provides programs that enable third parties (3P) to sell products on its web sites. The Company sources and sells a range of products to its customers and also manufactures and sells Kindle devices. It operates in two segments: North America and International. In May 2012‚ Amazon acquired Kiva Systems‚ Inc. II - AMAZON ANALYSIS SWOT Business Plan We based our business plan on the past annual reports of Amazon and on the Market/Equity research of JP Morgan and
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