Question: Please, Help me to answer the following question: Estimating Cost of Equity Capital and Weighted Average Cost of Capital The December 31, 2012 partial financial
Please, Help me to answer the following question:
Estimating Cost of Equity Capital and Weighted Average Cost of Capital The December 31, 2012 partial financial statements taken from the annual report of AT&T (T) follow.
| Consolidated Statements of Income | ||
| Dollars in millions except per share amounts | 2012 | 2011 |
| Operating revenues |
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| Wireless service | $ 59,186 | $ 56,726 |
| Data | 31,798 | 29,560 |
| Voice | 22,619 | 25,126 |
| Directory | 1,049 | 3,293 |
| Other | 12,782 | 12,782 |
| Total operating revenues | 127,434 | 126,723 |
| Operating expenses |
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| Cost of services and sales (exclusive of depreciation and amortization show separately below) | 55,215 | 54,836 |
| Selling, general and administrative | 41,079 | 41,382 |
| Impairment of intangible assets | -- | 2,910 |
| Depreciation and amortization | 18,143 | 18,377 |
| Total operating expenses | 114,437 | 117,505 |
| Operating income | 12,997 | 9,218 |
| Other income (expense): |
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| Interest expense | (3,444) | (3,535) |
| Equity in net income of affiliates | 752 | 784 |
| Other income, net | 134 | 249 |
| Total other income (expense) | (2,558) | (2,502) |
| Income from continuing operations before income taxes | 10,439 | 6,716 |
| Income tax (benefit) expense | 2,900 | 2,532 |
| Income from continuing operations | 7,539 | 4,184 |
| Income from discontinued operations, net of tax | -- | -- |
| Net income | $ 7,539 | $ 4,184 |
| Consolidated Balance Sheets -- Liabilities and Equity Sections | ||
| Dollars in millions except per share amounts, December 31 | 2012 | 2011 |
| Current liabilities |
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| Debt maturing within one year | $ 3,486 | $ 3,453 |
| Accounts payable and accrued liabilities | 20,911 | 19,956 |
| Advanced billed and customer deposits | 3,808 | 3,872 |
| Accrued taxes | 1,026 | 1,003 |
| Dividends payable | 2,556 | 2,608 |
| Total current liabilities | 31,787 | 30,892 |
| Long-term debt | 66,358 | 61,300 |
| Deferred credits and other noncurrent liabilities: |
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| Deferred income taxes | 28,491 | 25,748 |
| Post employment benefit obligation | 41,392 | 34,011 |
| Other noncurrent liabilities | 11,592 | 12,694 |
| Total deferred credits and other noncurrent liabilities | 81,475 | 72,453 |
| Stockholders' equity |
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| Common stock ($1 par value, 14,000,000,000 authorized at December 31, 2012 and 2011; issued 6,495,231,088 at December 31, 2012 and 2011) | 6,495 | 6,495 |
| Additional paid-in capital | 91,038 | 91,156 |
| Retained earnings | 22,481 | 25,453 |
| Treasury stock (913,836,325 at December 31, 2012 and 568,719,202 at December 31, 2011, at cost) | (32,888) | (20,750) |
| Accumulated other comprehensive income | 5,236 | 3,180 |
| Noncontrolling interest | 333 | 263 |
| Total stockholders' equity | 92,695 | 105,797 |
| Total liabilities and stockholders' equity | $ 272,315 | $270,442 |
| Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity -- Excerpts | 2012 | |
| Amount in millions except per share amounts, December 31 | Shares | Amounts |
| Common Stock |
|
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| Balance at beginning of year | 6,495 | $ 6,495 |
| Issuance of shares | -- | -- |
| Balance at end of year | 6,495 | $ 6,495 |
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| Retained Earnings |
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| Balance at beginning of year |
| $25,453 |
| Net income attributable to AT&T ($1.25 per diluted share) |
| 7,264 |
| Dividends to stockholders ($1.77 per share) |
| (10,196) |
| Other |
| (40) |
| Balance at end of year |
| $ 22,841 |
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| Treasury Shares |
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| Balance at beginning of year | (568) | $(20,750) |
| Repurchase of common stock | (371) | (12,752) |
| Issuance of treasury stock | 25 | 614 |
| Balance at end of year | (914) | $(32,888) |
| In early 2013, Yahoo reports that AT&T has a market beta of: | 0.66 | |
| and that its closing stock price at the end of 2012 was: | $33.71 | |
| AT&T's statutory tax rate is: | 37% |
QUESTION:
Footnote 9 of AT&T's 10-K reports that the market value of its debt approximately $81.31 billion. Calculate the company's intrinsic value of debt and equity.
Intrinsic value of debt = $Answer
million
Intrinsic value of equity = $Answer
million (Round to the nearest million.)
Assume that AT&T's after tax cost of debt is 3.25%. Using this information and your rounded answers from above and from part (b), estimate AT&T's weighted average cost of capital. (Do not round until your final answer. Round to one decimal place.)
WACC = Answer
%
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