Question: Edited: To add missing information. #6 Google currently has a 5 million common shares outstanding, and a 1 million preferred shares outstanding, and 100,000 bonds
Edited: To add missing information.
#6 Google currently has a 5 million common shares outstanding, and a 1 million preferred shares outstanding, and 100,000 bonds outstanding. Use your answers in #3, #4, and #5 to calculate Google Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) if the corporate tax rate is 35%.
Needed information for #6
#3 = As a financial analyst, you know that both DGM and the CAPM used in # 1 and # 2 above can be inaccurate, so you decided to calculate the average cost of equity of google. What is the average cost of equity of Google?
Ans: 13.76%
#4 =Google has a preferred stock that pays an annual dividend of 6$ to shareholders. What is the cost of Googles preferred stocks if it is currently priced at $100?
Ans: 6%
#5 = Google has one bond outstanding that matures in 20 years. This bond has a coupon rate of 8%, paid semiannually. The bond currently sells for $1,124. What is the pre-tax cost of debt of Google?
Ans: 3.43%
End of needed information for #6
And then it builds off this question.
Motorola Mobility LLC is a company that develops mobile devices. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States, the company was formed on January 4, 2011 by the split of Motorola Inc. into two separate companies; Motorola Mobility took on the company's consumer-oriented product lines, including its mobile phone business and its cable modems and set-top boxes for digital cable and satellite television services, while Motorola Solutions retained the company's enterprise-oriented product lines. Early 2012, Google decided to purchase Motorola mobility LLC for $12.5b. Google had a plan to keep Motorola mobility for 5 years. Google financial analysis team made the following forecasts:
| Year | Cash flow(in billions) | Net income (in billions) |
| 2012 | 1.5 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2.5 | 2 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 | 2 |
| 2016 | 6 (includes 3.5b selling price) | 1.5 |
And that the average book value of asset is $8b and Googles required rate of return is its WACC.
-Calculate net present value (NPV) for the above investment decision. Would you accept or reject this investment decision? Why?
-Calculate payback period. If you know that google accepts projects with 4 years payback period. Would you accept that project?
-Calculate the Motorola project internal rate of return (IRR). Would you accept or reject this project? Why?
Please show work so I can better understand it, preferably in excel. Thanks!
Questions 1 &2 below are just posted as a reference. They don't need to be answered.
1- In the previous 5 years, Google paid an annual dividend as follows:
| Year | Dividends |
| 2011 | 2.7 |
| 2010 | 2.5 |
| 2009 | 2.2 |
| 2008 | 1.8 |
| 2007 | 1.5 |
Google is expected to pay a dividends of $3 in the next year (2012). What is the cost of equity of Google if its current stock price is $90?
2- As a technology-based firm, Google has a high beta of 1.4. if the risk-free rate of return is 5% and the market risk premium is 3%, calculate the cost of equity of Google using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM)?
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