INTRODUCTION * Wrigley has a one sided capital structure * Their interest rates has been at their lowest in 50 years * However‚ they have the leading market share in a stale low technology business * Blanka Dobrynin‚ the managing partner of Aurora Borealis LLC (a company who used a hedge fund to invest in companies who are in distress‚ merger arbitrage‚ change-of-control transactions‚ and recapitalization) wanted to investigate a potential investment of $3B in Wrigley * Wrigley
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capital needs to be used due to the similarities between more than 95% of their revenues. However we believe that the cost of capital calculation is inaccurate based on some of the information that Cohen gives while explaining the figures used in the WACC formula. Capital Weights: Ms. Cohen calculated the weight of debt to be 27% and equity to be 73% based on the book values found in Nike’s consolidated balance sheet from May 31‚ 2001 (see Exhibit 1). Total debt was found by adding together all
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TO: General Manager of Phuket Beach Hotel RE: Investment Consultation: Planet Karaoke Pub Vs. Beach Karaoke The Phuket Beach Hotel faces development options in its future. Planet Karaoke Pub‚ a restaurant chain‚ has approached the hotel to obtain a 4 year lease to occupy a 3‚000 square foot space. Should the Phuket Beach Hotel invest in Planet Karaoke’s proposal? Or‚ should the hotel develop its own karaoke business? Kornkrit and Wanida believe Group 3 is the most equipped to handle the analysis
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NIKE‚ INC.: COST OF CAPITAL On July 5‚ 2001‚ Kimi Ford‚ a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group‚ a mutual-fund management firm‚ pored over analysts ’ write-ups of Nike‚ Inc.‚ the athletic-shoe manufacturer. Nike ’s share price had declined significantly from the beginning of the year. Ford was considering buying some shares for the fund she managed‚ the NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund‚ which invested mostly in Fortune 500 companies‚ with an emphasis on value investing. Its top holdings
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finding beta‚ cost of debt‚ and cost of equity in order to find weighted average cost of capital‚ or WACC‚ must be calculated using proxy firms and divisional data. The firm’s use of WACC is directed towards analysis of the company’s future capital investments. Specifically‚ firms use it as a discount rate in determining a projects profitability versus the cost of taking it on. A firm-wide WACC is a beneficial tool for determining whether a firm should repurchase shares or buy back equity. On
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Case 15 Version 2.1 Teletech Corporation‚ 1996 Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives In January 1996‚ the chief financial officer of this telecommunications company must fashion a response to a raider who claims that a major business segment of this company should be sold because it is not earning a satisfactory rate of return. The case recounts the debate within the company over the use of a single hurdle rate to evaluate all segments of the company versus a riskadjusted hurdle-rate
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scenario. There is a scenario in which the WACC changes independently off all other variables to about 22%. In this situation‚ the build option would provide an NPV of around $17‚000. That NPV while positive is nowhere near what Tremont would like out of their investment. The base IRR for the build option is low because it generates most of its value in the later years of the project. This makes it more sensitive to changes in the discount rate. The WACC can go as low as 25% below the base value
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Financial Engineering Case Study Written Report NIKE INC.‚ COST OF CAPITAL CASE REPORT Submitted to: Mr. Mieczyslaw Grudzinski Report date: 27 February 2014 BBA Finance & Accounting Semester 6‚ Academic year 2013-2014 Group Member: Tra My Nguyen 24458 Anna Kulishova 24444 Kaihao Zhang 25545 Zakariae Mokhliss 27727 NIKE INC.‚ COST OF CAPITAL CASE REPORT INTRODUCTION Our group was assigned to produce a report on the Nike Inc.: Cost
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students the opportunity to explore how a company uses the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to compute the cost of capital for each of its divisions. The use of Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) formula and the mechanics of applying it are stressed. 8. • If students are familiar with the WACC formula‚ then the material can be covered in one class‚
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find out the net present value of this investment. In this case‚ our team used both weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and flow to equity (FTE) to analysis the whole undertaking. Assumptions Before getting into more details about the expected financial return from the investment‚ we need to clarify several key issues. First‚ the investment in the A3XX is incredibly complex and we have‚ by necessity‚ used assumptions to simplify the case to build a more tractable model. For the whole market‚ we
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