DIRECTIONS. Analyze the situation and answer the question on a separate sheet ofраper.One of the VP for Finance of the Financial Manager is to determine the appropriate capitalstructure of the company. To illustrate, show/draw the figure below: Sample CapitalStructure100%75%Equity50%Assets25%Liabilities0%Total AssetsTotal Structure- In the figure above, the total assets are financed by 60% debt and 40% equity. Accordingly,the capital structure is 60% debt and 40% equity.Question:Do you think there is an ideal mix of debt and equity across corporations? Elaborate youranswer.Note:• Remember that Assets = Liabilities + Owner's Equity.To be able to acquire assets, our funds must have come somewhere. If it was boughtusing cash from our pockets, it is financed by equity.On the other hand, if we used money from our borrowings, the asset bought isfinanced by debt.

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Fundamentals of Financial Management, Concise Edition (MindTap Course List)

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ISBN:9781305635937

Author:Eugene F. Brigham, Joel F. Houston

Publisher:Eugene F. Brigham, Joel F. Houston

Chapter10: The Cost Of Capital

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Problem 1DQ: As a first step, we need to estimate what percentage of MMMs capital comes from debt, preferred...

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To get an overall picture of each companys capital structure, it is helpful to look at a chart that summarizes the companys capital structure over the past decade. To obtain this chart, choose a company to start with and select FINANCIALS. Next, select MORE THOMSON REPORTS CHARTSCAPITAL STRICTURE. This should generate a chart that plots the companys total long-term debt, total common equity, and total current liabilities over the past decade. What, if any, are the major trends that emerge when youre looking at these charts? Do these companies tend to have relatively high or relatively low levels of debt? Do these companies have significant levels of current liabilities? Have their capital structures changed over time?
CALCULATING 3Ms COST OF CAPITAL In this chapter, we described how to estimate a companys WACC, which is the weighted average of its costs of debt, preferred stock, and common equity. Most of the data we need to do this can be found from various data sources on the Internet. Here we walk through the steps used to calculate Minnesota Mining Manufacturings (MMM) WACC. 3. Next, we need to calculate MMMs cost of debt. We can use different approaches to estimate it. One approach is to take the companys interest expense and divide it by total debt (which is the sum of short-term debt and long-term debt). This approach only works if the historical cost of debt equals the yield to maturity in todays market (i.e., if MMMs outstanding bonds are trading at close to par). This approach may produce misleading estimates in years in which MMM issues a significant amount of new debt. For example, if a company issues a great deal of debt at the end of the year, the full amount of debt will appear on the year-end balance sheet, yet we still may not see a sharp increase in annual interest expense because the debt was outstanding for only a small portion of the entire year. When this situation occurs, the estimated cost of debt will likely understate the true cost of debt. Another approach is to try to find this number in the notes to the companys annual report by accessing the companys home page and its Investor Relations section. Alternatively, you can go to other external sources, such as bondsonline.com, for corporate bond spreads, which can be used to find estimates of the cost of debt. Remember that you need the after-tax cost of debt to calculate a firms WACC, so you will need MMMs tax rate (which has averaged around 30% in recent years). What is your estimate of MMMs after-tax cost of debt?
As a first step, we need to estimate what percentage of MMMs capital comes from debt, preferred stock, and common equity. This information can be found on the firms latest annual balance sheet. (As of year end 2014, MMM had no preferred stock.) Total debt includes all interest-bearing debt and is the sum of short-term debt and long-term debt. a. Recall that the weights used in the WACC are based on the companys target capital structure. If we assume that the company wants to maintain the same mix of capital that it currently has on its balance sheet, what weights should you use to estimate the WACC for MMM? b. Find MMMs market capitalization, which is the market value of its common equity. Using the sum of its short-term debt and long-term debt from the balance sheet (we assume that the market value of its debt equals its book value) and its market capitalization, recalculate the firms debt and common equity weights to be used in the WACC equation. These weights are approximations of market-value weights. Be sure not to include accruals in the debt calculation.
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The financial manager of a firm determines the following schedules of cost of debt and cost of equity for various combinations of debt financing: Debt/Assets After-Tax Cost of Debt Cost of Equity 0 % 4 % 7 % 10 4 7 20 4 7 30 4 9 40 5 10 50 5 12 60 8 13 70 8 15 Find the optimal capital structure (that is, optimal combination of debt and equity financing). Round your answers for the capital structure to the nearest whole number and for the cost of capital to one decimal place. The optimal capital structure: % debt and % equity with a cost of capital of % Why does the cost of capital initially decline as the firm substitutes debt for equity financing? The cost of capital initially declines because the firm cost of debt is than the cost of equity. Why will the cost of funds eventually rise as the firm becomes more financially leveraged? As the firm becomes more financially leveraged and riskier, the cost of debt…
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Hello. I need help with the following question please. Taylor Company has a target capital structure that consists of $3.3 million of debt capital, $2.5 million of preferred stock financing, and $2.8 million of common equity. The corresponding weights of its debt, preferred stock, and common equity financing that should be used to compute its weighted cost of capital (rounded to the nearest wo decimal places) are: 38.37%, 29.07%, and 32.56%, respectively 32.04%, 34.53%, and 33.43%, respectively 29.07%, 32.56%, and 38.37%, respectively 34.53%, 33.43%, and 32.04%, respectively Consider the following case: Mason Limited, a key competitor of Taylor Company in the construction field, has a capital structure consisting of 45% debt, 5% preferred stock, and 50% common equity. Concerned that its cost of capital may put it at a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis the Taylor Company, a Mason analyst has been tasked with computing and comparing the weighted costs…
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Kellogg’s CFO is in the process of determining the firm’s WACC and needs to figure out the weights of the various types of capital sources. Accordingly, she starts by collecting information from the balance sheet and the capital markets, and makes up the table shown below: Component Balance Sheet Value Number Outstanding Current Market Price Market Value Debt $150,000,000 150,000 $1,075 Preferred Stock $ 45,000,000 1,500,000 $40 Common Stock $180,000,000 4,500,000 $45.57 Corporate tax rate = 30% is Tc Before tax cost of debt = 7.6% Rd Cost of Equity = 11.36% Re Based upon the above information, calculate the firm’s weighted average cost of capital.
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