The Nelson Cotton Company Ltd is looking to determine its cost of capital and has asked you
Question:
*a) Determine the EAR for the debt that matures in 15 years.
b) Determine the return on debt that needs to be used in your WACC calculation. Calculate this on an after-tax basis.
c) Determine the required return on the of preference equity
d) Determine the required return of the ordinary equity using the CAPM
e) Determine the required return of the ordinary equity using the dividend discount model
f) In two sentence only, explain why the two methods used above to calculate the cost of equity may give us different answers for the same organization.
Determine the weight of debt, ordinary equity and preference equity to be used in the calculation of the after tax WACC.
h) Calculate the after tax Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC). Assume you use the CAPM cost of equity in your calculation.
Corporate Finance
ISBN: 9780077173630
3rd Edition
Authors: David Hillier, Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, Bradford D. Jordan, Jeffrey F. Jaffe