Question: Excel work would be much appreciated, Thumbs up coming your way Use the following information about a firm to estimate the firms weighted average cost

Excel work would be much appreciated, Thumbs up coming your way

Use the following information about a firm to estimate the firms weighted average cost of capital.

  • The firms market value of debt is $95,000,000.
  • The firm has 3,649,000 shares of common stock outstanding, trading at $49.92 per share (market capitalization is shares outstanding multiplied by share price).
  • It does not have preferred stock outstanding.
  • The common stocks beta is 1.87.
  • The yield on the firms debt is 7.5%.
  • The risk-free rate is 1.5% and the expected market return is 6.5% (thus, the market risk premium is 5%).
  • The firms marginal tax rate is 25%.

The firm, which is diversified across industries, is considering undertaking a new project within a specific sector that has a unique risk profile. Is it a good idea to use the companys cost of capital to estimate the projects NPV? If not, how could you (using concepts we discussed in class) compute the projects cost of capital?

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