Ex. Cost of Capital-2021
Ex. Cost of Capital-2021
Ex. Cost of Capital-2021
4. The earnings, dividends, and stock price of Carpetto Technologies Inc. are
expected to grow at 7% per year in the future. Carpetto’s common stock sells for
Rs. 23 per share, its last dividend was Rs. 2.00, and the company will pay a
dividend of Rs. 2.14 at the end of the current year.
a. Using the discounted cash flow approach, what is its cost of equity?
b. If the firm’s beta is 1.6, the risk-free rate is 9 percent, and the expected
return on the market is 13 percent, what will be the firm’s cost of equity
using the CAPM approach?
5. The Manx Company was recently formed to manufacture a new product. It has the
following capital structure in market value terms:
The company has a marginal tax rate of 40 percent. A study of publicly held
companies in this line of business suggests that the required return on equity is about
17 percent. (The CAPM approach was used to determine the required rate of return.)
The Manx Company’s debt is currently yielding 13 percent, and its preferred stock is
yielding 12 percent. Compute the firm’s present weighted average cost of capital.
6. Cohn and Sitwell, Inc., is considering manufacturing special drill bits and other
equipment for oil rigs. The proposed project is currently regarded as complementary to
its other lines of business, and the company has certain expertise by virtue of its
having a large mechanical engineering staff. Because of the large outlays required to
get into the business, management is concerned that Cohn and Sitwell earn a proper
return. Since the new venture is believed to be sufficiently different from the
company’s existing operations, management feels that a required rate of return other
than the company’s present one should be employed.
The financial manager’s staff has identified several companies (with capital structures
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similar to that of Cohn and Sitwell) engaged solely in the manufacture and sale of oil
drilling equipment whose common stocks are publicly traded. Over the last five years,
the median average beta for these companies has been 1.28. The staff believes that 18
percent is a reasonable estimate of the average return on stocks “in general” for the
foreseeable future and that the risk-free rate will be around 12 percent. In financing
projects, Cohn and Sitwell uses 40 percent debt and 60 percent equity. The after-tax
cost of debt is 8 percent.
a. On the basis of this information, determine a required rate of return for the
project, using the CAPM approach.
b. Is the figure obtained likely to be a realistic estimate of the required rate of return
on the project?