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Cost of Capital

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Chapter Outline
The Cost of Equity
The Cost of Debt
The Cost of Preferred Stock
The Weighted Average Cost of
Capital (WACC)
Divisional and Project Costs of
Capital
Floatation Costs relative to WACC
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The Cost of Equity

There are two major methods for
determining the cost of equity:

1. Dividend growth
model (aka: the
Gordon Model)
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2.

SML, or the

The Dividend Growth

Model
(The Gordon Model)
Start with the dividend growth
model formula and rearrange to
solve for RE

D1
P0
RE g

D1
RE
g
P0
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Dividend Growth
Model Example
Suppose that your company is
expected to pay a dividend of $1.50
per share next year.
There has been a steady growth in
dividends of 5.1% per year and the
market expects that to continue. The
current price is $25.

RE
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1.50 is the cost of equity?

What

.051 .111 11.1%

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Advantages and
Disadvantages of the
Dividend Growth Model
Advantage:
Easy to
understand and
use

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Advantages and
Disadvantages of the
Dividend Growth Model
Disadvantages:
Only applicable to
companies
currently paying
dividends

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Not applicable if
dividends arent
growing at a
reasonably constant
rate

Advantages and
Disadvantages of the
Dividend Growth Model
Disadvantages :
Extremely
sensitive to the
estimated growth
rate an increase
in g of 1%
increases the cost
of equity by 1%
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Does not
explicitly consider

The SML Approach

Use the following
information to compute
our cost of equity:
Risk-free rate, Rf
Market risk premium, E(RM)
Rf

RSystematic
E (asset,
RM ) R f )
risk
E Rf
E ( of
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Example - SML
Suppose your company has:
an equity beta of .58
the current risk-free rate is
6.1%
What
the expected
market
riskusing
is the cost
of equity
premium
is 8.6% technique?
the
SML valuation

RE = 6.1 + .58(8.6) = 11.1%

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Advantages and
Disadvantages of
SML
Advantages:
Explicitly adjusts for
systematic risk
Applicable to all companies,
as long as we can estimate
beta
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Advantages and
Disadvantages of
SML
Disadvantages:
Have to estimate the expected
market risk premium, which
does vary over time
Have to estimate beta, which
also varies over time

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We are using the past to predict

the future, which is not always
reliable

Cost of Debt
The cost of debt is the
required return on our
companys debt
We usually focus on the cost
of long-term debt or bonds
(as opposed to short-term
debt like notes payable)
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Cost of Debt
The required return is best
estimated by computing the
yield-to-maturity on the
existing long-term debt (the
YTM).
The computation of the YTM
was presented in the
chapter on Bond Valuation
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Example: Cost of
Debt: computing the
YTM
Suppose we have a corporate bond
issue currently outstanding that has
25 years left to maturity.
The coupon rate is 9%, and coupons
are paid semiannually.
The bond is currently selling for
$908.72 per $1,000 bond.

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What is the cost of

debt?

Cost of Preferred
Stock
Preferred stock is a
perpetuity, so we take
the perpetuity
formula:
and then rearrange the
terms to solve for RP

P0 = D_
Rps
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Rps = D_
P0

Example: Cost of
Preferred Stock
Your company has
preferred stock that has
an annual dividend of
$3.00
The current price is $25
What is the cost of preferred
stock?

RP = 3 / 25 = 12%

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Capital Structure
Weights
To compute the
WACC, we first
need the weights
of each source of
funds: namely
debt, preferred
stock and equity

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Capital Structure
Weights
Lets simplify with
an example of just
debt and equity.
We often use the
market value of
both debt and
equity
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Capital Structure
Valuation
Debts Market Value = (# of
outstanding bonds ) x (the
market price of one bond)
Equitys Market Value = (#
shares of outstanding common
stock) x (the market price of one
share of common stock)
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Capital Structure
Valuation
A firms market value is
simply the added value of
both the debt and the equity:

V=D + E

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Capital Structure
Weights
WD = D/V
This is the %
financed with debt
WE = E/V
This is the %
financed with
equity
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Student Alert!
The capital
structure weights
must always add up
to 100%

WD + WE = 100%
or
WD + WPS + WE =
100%
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Example: Capital
Structure Weights
Suppose you have a market value
of equity equal to $500 million and
a market value of debt equal to
$475 million.
What are the capital structure
weights?
V = $500 million + $475 million = $975 million
wD = D/V = 475 / 975 = .4872 = 48.72%
wE = E/V = 500 / 975 = .5128 = 51.28%
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Taxes and the WACC

Wait a minute!
Debt and Equity
are not equal in
the eyes of the
firm.

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Debt gets a tax

advantage and
Equity does not.

Taxes and the WACC

Interest expense reduces
our tax liability
This reduction in taxes
reduces our cost of debt
Thus, our real cost of debt
is actually the AFTER-TAX
cost of debt or
After-tax cost of debt = RD(1-TC)
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Taxes and the WACC

Our new equation for the
WACC is:

WACC = WDRD(1-TC) + WE RE

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This is one of the

most powerful
relationships in
finance.

Together WACC
Example
Equity
Information:
50 million shares
$80 per share
Beta = 1.15
Market risk
premium = 9%

Debt Information:
$1 billion in
outstanding debt
(face value)
Current quote = 110
Coupon rate = 9%,
semiannual coupons
15 years to maturity

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Risk-free
rate =tax rate is 40%
The firms
5%

WACC Example
1. What is the cost of
debt?
N = 30; PV = -1,100; PMT = 45;
FV = 1,000; CPT I/Y = 3.9268
RD = 3.927(2)

= 7.854%
2. What is the cost of
equity (using the CAPM)?
RE = 5 + 1.15(9) = 15.35%
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WACC Example
3. What is the AFTER-TAX
cost of debt?

RD (1 TC) = 7.854 (1 - .40)

= 4.712%

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WACC Example
4. What are the capital structure
weights?
Debt = 1 billion ($1.10) = $1.1
billion
Equity = 50 million ($80) = $4
billion
Value of the Firm = 4 + 1.1 =
$5.1 billion

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WACC Example (Plug

and Chug)
5. Compute the Weighted Average
Cost of Capital (the WACC)

WACC = WDRD(1-TC) + WE RE
WACC = .2157 (4.712%) + .7843 (15.35%)

= 13.06%
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Divisional and Project

Costs of Capital
Using the WACC as our discount
rate is only appropriate for projects
that have the same risk as the
firms current operations
If we are looking at a project that
does NOT have the same risk as the
firm, then we need to determine the
appropriate discount rate for that
project
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Divisional and Project

Costs of Capital
Divisions also often require
separate
discount rates

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Project Risk An
Example
What would happen if we use the
WACC for all projects regardless of
risk?
Assume the WACC = 15%
Project

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A
B
C

Required Return

20%
15%
10%

17%
18%
12%

IRR

Project Risk
Differentiation
We have two tools in finance to
help us here:

1. The Pure Play

Approach
2. The Subjective
Approach
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The Pure Play

Approach
1.Find one or more
companies that specialize
in the product or service
that we are considering
2.Compute (or research) the
beta for each company

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3.Take an average of the

betas

The Pure Play

Approach
4. Use that beta along with
the CAPM to find the
appropriate return for a
project of that identical
risk
5. Use this computed cost
of capital for capital
budgeting computations
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Subjective Approach
Consider the projects risk relative
to the firm overall:

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If the project has more risk than

the firm, use a discount rate
greater
than
the WACC
If the
projects
risk >
firms risk,
increase the WACC number
If the project has less risk than the
firm,Ifuse
discountrisk
rate<less
than
theaprojects
firms
the WACC
risk,
Decrease the WACC

Subjective Approach
You may still
accept projects
that you shouldnt
and reject projects
you should accept,
but your error
rate should be
lower than not
considering
differential risk at
all.
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Subjective Approach:
An Example

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Risk Level

Discount Rate

Very Low Risk

WACC 8%

Low Risk

WACC 3%

Same Risk as Firm

WACC

High Risk

WACC + 5%

Very High Risk

WACC + 10%

Flotation Costs
Flotation costs are the
fees paid to issue stocks or
bonds
While the required return
for a project depends on
the risk, it should not
depend upon how the
money is raised
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However, the cost of

issuing new securities

Flotation Costs
However, the cost of
issuing new securities
should not just be ignored
either.
The Basic Approach:
1. Compute the weighted
average flotation cost
2.
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Use the target weights

because the firm will

Flotation Costs: An NPV

Example
Your company is considering a
project that will cost $1 million.
The project will generate after-tax
cash flows of $250,000 per year for
7 years.
The WACC is 15%, and the firms
target D/E ratio is .6
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The flotation cost for equity is 5%,

and the flotation cost for debt is

Flotation Costs: An NPV

Example
What is the NPV for the project
before adjusting for flotation
costs?
WACC = 15%
PV of future cash flows = $1,040,105
NPV = 1,040,105 - 1,000,000
= $ 40,105
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Flotation Costs: An NPV

Example
What is the NPV for the project
after adjusting for flotation
costs?
fA = (.375)(3%) + (.625)(5%) = 4.25%
PV of future cash flows = 1,040,105
NPV = 1,040,105 - 1,000,000/(1-.0425)
= $ -4,281
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Flotation Costs: An NPV

Example
The project would have a
positive NPV of $40,105
without considering
flotation costs
Once we consider the cost
of issuing new securities,
the NPV becomes a
negative $4,281!
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Comprehensive
Problem
A corporation has 10,000 bonds outstanding
with a 6% annual coupon rate, 8 years to
maturity, a $1,000 face value, and a $1,100
market price.
The companys 100,000 shares of preferred
stock pay a $3 annual dividend, and sell for
$30 per share.
The companys 500,000 shares of common
stock sell for $25 per share and have a beta
of 1.5. The risk free rate is 4%, and the
market return is 12%.
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Assuming a 40% tax rate, what is the

Questions?
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