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FINALS:

  1. Mark Tool has on its books the amount and specific (after-tax) costs shown in the following table for each source of capital.

Source of Capital

Book Value

Specific Cost

Long-Term Debt

$ 700, 000

5.3%

Preferred Stock

50, 000

12.0

Common Stock Equity

650, 000

16.0

  1. Calculate the firm’s weighted average cost of capital using book value weights.
  2. Explain how the firm can use this cost in the investment decision-making process.

WACC = Equity proportion * Cost of equity + Debt proportion * Cost of debt * (1-Tax)

So in you case it would be:

 A. wacc = 700,000/1400,000*0.053+50,000/1400,000*0.12+650,000/1400,000*0.16 = 10.51%

B.Investment decision should depend on IRR of the project. If IRR is higher than WACC, such investment should be completed.

  1. Peter Company has compiled the information shown in the following table.

Source of Capital

Book Value

Market Value

After-Tax cost

Long-Term Debt

$ 4, 000, 000

$ 3, 840, 000

6.0%

Preferred Stock

40, 000

60, 000

13.0

Common Stock Equity

1, 060, 000

3, 000, 000

17.0

Total

$ 5, 100, 000

$ 6, 900, 000

  1. Calculate the weighted average cost of capital using book value weights.
  2. Calculate the weighted average cost of capital using market value weights.
  3. Compare the answers obtained in a and b.  Explain the differences.

Book values

Weight of debt = 4m/5.1m = 78.43%

Weight of pref stock = 40000/5.1m= 0.7843%

Weight of common stock = 1060000/5.1m = 20.78%, these should sum to 100%

a) Book values

= (78.43% * 6%) + (0.7843% * 13%) + (20.78% * 17%) = 8.34%

b) market values

Weight of debt = 3.84m/6.9m = 55.65%

Weight of pref stock = 60000/6.9m= 0.8696%

Weight of common stock = 3m/6.9m = 43.48%, these should sum to 100%

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