Your manager wants you to help him value the Firm K and its equity and debt. The
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Your manager wants you to help him value the Firm K and its equity and debt. The risk-freerateis 2%whiletheexpected marketreturn is 5%.
Firm K's beta is 1.5. Firm's K debt to equity is 1:1. Firm's K cost of debt is 2.5% while itscorporate tax rate is 30%. Its free cashflow for equity is $1 million per year. Interest expenseis $50,000 per year with no Net borrowing. Successive cash flows (equity and firm) grow at1%annually.
- UsingCapitalAssetPricingModel(CAPM),calculatethecostofequityfor FirmK.
(4marks)
- CalculatetheWeighted AverageCostofCapital(WACC).
(4marks)
- Howdoesthecorporatetax reducetheoverallWACC?
- Usingfree cashflowvaluationmethods,computevalueofequity,firmanddebt.
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Fundamentals of corporate finance
ISBN: 978-0470876442
2nd Edition
Authors: Robert Parrino, David S. Kidwell, Thomas W. Bates
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