Cost of Capital – Project
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length: Word document of 700–1,000 words with attached Excel Spreadsheet
showing calculations
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Key Assignment Draft
Your next assignment as a financial management intern is to apply
the knowledge that you acquired while engaging in the cost of capital
discussion that you had with your colleagues. In this task, you will be
calculating the weighted cost of capital for a firm using the book value of the
components and the concepts presented in this phase.
Using the most current annual financial statements from the
company you analyzed in Phase 1, determine the percentage of the firm’s assets
that are currently be financed with debt (total liabilities), preferred stock,
and common stock (common equity). It is very possible that your firm will have
very little or no preferred stock, so in this class, the percent would be
“zero.” Your ratios should add up to 100%. You will also need to
calculate the firm’s average tax rate using the income tax expense divided by
the firm’s income before taxes. Use the following tables:
Company |
Total Assets |
Total Liabilities |
Total Preferred Stock |
Total Common Equity |
Dollar Value |
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% of Assets |
Company |
Income before Tax |
Income Tax Expense |
Average Tax Rate (%) |
The first component to determine is the cost of debt. You mentor
suggests using the Web site that you used in the previous Phase to find the
pretax yield-to-maturity of a bond with at least 5 years left before maturity.
Using the following table, calculate the firm’s after-tax cost of debt:
Yield to Maturity |
1 – Average Tax Rate |
After-tax Cost of Debt |
Now you will need to calculate the cost of preferred stock. You
can use the following table:
Annual Dividend |
Current Value of |
Cost of Preferred Stock |
To calculate the cost of common equity, you can use the CAPM
model. Using current stock data, the yield on the 5-year treasury bond, and the
return on the market calculated in Phase 2, you can calculate the cost of
common equity using the following table:
5-year Treasury Bond |
Stock’s Beta |
Return on the Top 500 |
Cost of Common Equity |
Now, you can use the cost and ratios from above to calculate the
firm’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC) using the following table:
After-Tax Cost of Debt |
Cost of Preferred Stock |
Cost of Common Equity |
WACC |
Unweighted Cost |
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Weight of Component |
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Weighted Cost of |
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After completing the required calculations, explain your results
in a Word document, and attach the spreadsheet showing your work. Be sure to
explain the following:-
How would
you expect the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) to differ if you had
used market values of equity rather than the book value of equity, and why? -
What
would you expect would happen to the cost of equity if you had to raise it by
selling new equity, and why? -
If the
after-tax cost of debt is always less expensive than equity, why don’t firms
use more debt and less equity? -
What are
some of the advantages and disadvantages of raising capital by using debt? -
How would
“floatation costs” impacted the WACC, and how could they have been
incorporated in the formula?Note: You can find information about the top 500 stocks at this Web site.
Reference
S&P
500 index chart. (2014). Retrieved from the Yahoo! Finance Web site:
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5egspc+interactive#symbol=^gspc;range=1y;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=;Be sure to document your paper with in-text citations, credible
sources, and list of references used in proper APA format.
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Objective: |
· Determine the · Determine the firm’s · Use effective |