This document provides an overview of Chapter 14 on the cost of capital from a finance textbook. It discusses determining a firm's cost of equity, cost of debt, weighted average cost of capital, and how to use these calculations to value a company. The chapter outline lists sections on the cost of equity, debt, preferred stock, weighted average cost of capital, divisional costs of capital, and how WACC is used for company valuation. Key concepts covered include the dividend growth model and SML approach for calculating cost of equity, yield-to-maturity for cost of debt, and the weighted average calculation.
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Section 14.4 (A)
Note that for bonds we would find the market value of each
bond issue and then add them together.
Also note that preferred stock would just become another
component of the equation if the firm has issued it.
Finally, we generally ignore current liabilities in our
computations. However, if a company finances a substantial
portion of its assets with current liabilities, it should be
included in the process.
Lecture Tip: It may be helpful to mention and differentiate
between the three types of weightings in the capital structure
equation: book, market and target. It is also helpful to mention
that the total market value of equity incorporates the market
value of all three common equity accounts on the balance sheet
(common stock, additional paid-in capital and retained
earnings).
Lecture Tip: The cost of short-term debt is usually very
different from that of long-term debt. Some types of current
liabilities are interest-free, such as accruals. However, accounts
payable has a cost associated with it if the company forgoes
discounts. The cost of notes payable and other current liabilities
depends on market rates of interest for short-term loans. Since
these loans are often negotiated with banks, you can get
estimates of the short-term cost of capital from the company’s
bank. The market value and book value of current liabilities are
27. risky project that we shouldn’t have and rejected a less risky
project that we should have accepted. What will happen to the
overall risk of the firm if the company does this on a consistent
basis? Most students will see that the firm will become riskier.
What will happen to the firm’s cost of capital as the firm
becomes riskier? It will increase (adjusting for changes in
market returns in general) as well.
Lecture Tip: It may help students to distinguish between the
average cost of capital to the firm and the required return on a
given investment if the idea is turned around from the firm’s
point of view to the investor’s point of view. Consider an
investor who is holding a portfolio of T-bills, corporate bonds
and common stocks. Suppose there is an equal amount invested
in each. The T-bills have paid 5% on average, the corporate
bonds 10%, and the common stocks 15%. Thus, the average
portfolio return is 10%. Now suppose that the investor has some
additional money to invest and they can choose between T-bills
that are currently paying 7% and common stock that is expected
to pay 13%. What choice will the investor make if he uses the
10% average portfolio return as his cut-off rate? (Invest in
common stock 13%>10%, but not in T-bills 7%<10%.) What if
he uses the average return for each security as the cut-off rate?
(Invest in T-bills 7% > 5%, but not common stock 13%<15%.)
Lecture Tip: You may wish to point out here that the divisional
concept is no more than a firm-level application of the portfolio
concept introduced in the section on risk and return. And, not
surprisingly, the overall firm beta is therefore the weighted
average of the betas of the firm’s divisions.
Find one or more companies that specialize in the product or
service that we are considering.
Compute the beta for each company.
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Section 13.2 (C)
Portfolio return in Boom: .6(15) + .4(10) = 13%
Portfolio return in Normal: .6(10) + .4(9) = 9.6%
Portfolio return in Recession: .6(5) + .4(10) = 7%
Expected return = .25(13) + .6(9.6) + .15(7) = 10.06%
Variance = .25(13-10.06)2 + .6(9.6-10.06)2 + .15(7-10.06)2 =
3.6924
Standard deviation = 1.92%
Compare to return on X of 10.5% and standard deviation of
3.12%
And return on Z of 9.4% and standard deviation of .49%
Using covariances:
COV(X,Z) = .25(15-10.5)(10-9.4) + .6(10-10.5)(9-9.4) + .15(5-
10.5)(10-9.4) = .3
Portfolio variance = (.6 × 3.12)2 + (.4 × .49)2 + 2(.6)(.4)(.3) =
3.6868
Portfolio standard deviation = 1.92% (difference in variance due
to rounding)
Lecture Tip: Here are a few tips to pass along to students
suffering from “statistics overload”:
-The distribution is just the picture of all possible outcomes.
-The mean return is the central point of the distribution.
-The standard deviation is the average deviation from the mean.
-Assuming investor rationality (two-parameter utility
functions), the mean is a proxy for expected return and the
standard deviation is a proxy for total risk.
65. 11.35
Section 13.7 (A)
Based on the example in the book:
Point out that there is a linear relationship between beta and
expected return. Ask if the students remember the form of the
equation for a line.
Y = mx + b
E(R) = slope (Beta) + y-intercept
The y-intercept is = the risk-free rate, so all we need is the
slope
Lecture Tip: The example in the book illustrates a greater than
100% investment in asset A. This means that the investor has
borrowed money on margin (technically at the risk-free rate)
and used that money to purchase additional shares of asset A.
This can increase the potential returns, but it also increases the
risk.
Expected
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Expected Return
The reward-to-risk ratio is the slope of the line illustrated in the
previous example.
Slope = (E(RA) – – 0)
Reward-to-risk ratio for previous example =
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11.38
Section 13.7 (B)
Based on the discussion earlier, we now have all the
components of the line:
E(R) = [E(RM) –
Lecture Tip: Although the realized market risk premium has on
average been approximately 8.5%, the historical average should
not be confused with the anticipated risk premium for any
particular future period. There is abundant evidence that the
realized market return has varied greatly over time. The
historical average value should be treated accordingly. On the
other hand, there is currently no universally accepted means of
coming up with a good ex ante estimate of the market risk
premium, so the historical average might be as good a guess as
any. In the late 1990’s, there was evidence that the risk
premium had been shrinking. In fact, Alan Greenspan was
concerned with the reduction in the risk premium because he
was afraid that investors had lost sight of how risky stocks
actually are. Investors had a wake-up call in late 2000 and 2001
(and again in 2008 and 2009).
The capital asset pricing model defines the relationship between
risk and return.