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AT&T; LTE 1:08 PMM 76% mail-attachment.googleusercontent.c ¢ Weighted Average Cost of Capital .ABC Corporation has 3,000,000 shares outstanding and they are trading at a price of S50 each. The number of Preferred Stock outstanding is 2,500,000 and they are trading at S4 per share and pay a constant dividend of $0.80 every year for ever. The company has bonds whose market value is S51,750,000 and they are trading at a premium of S1,750,000. These bonds pay an average coupon of 9% and have an average time to rnaturity of 10 years. The Risk free rate of Return is 4%; the Return on the Market is 8% and the of this firm is 2.5. Assume that taxes are 30%; find the WACC? 2. XYZ Corporation has 1,000,000 shares outstanding and they are trading at $5 each share. The firm paid a dividend of S1 in Year 1 and the dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 10% forever. The firm has Preferred Stock valued at $2,000,000 on 1,000,000 shares and the Preferred Stock pays a constant dividend of S0.20 every year forever. You determine that the firm has debt whose book value is $3.000.000 and it pays a average coupon of 10%. The average YTM of the debt is 12%. Assume that taxes are 30%, find the WACC?

Explanation / Answer

WACC = (We X Ke) + (Wp X Kp) + (Wd x Kd X (1-T))

Where,

We = Weight of Equity (Equity Value divided by Firm Value)

Ke = Cost of Equity

Wp = Weight of Preference shares

Kp = Cost pf Preference Shares

Wd = Weight of debt

Kd = Cost of Debt

T = Tax rate

Cost of Equity    = Risk free rate + Beta X (Market Return – Risk free return)

                               = 0.04 + 2.5 X (.08-.04)

= 0.14 or 14%

Value of Equity = Number of shares outstanding in the market X Trading price

                                = 3,000,000 X 50

                                = 150,000,000 $

Cost of Preference shares            = Preferred dividend per share ÷ Market Price per preferred share

                                                                = 0.8 ÷ 4

                                                                = 0.2 or 20%

Value of Preference stock            = Number of preference shares outstanding X Market trading price

                                                                = 2,500,000 X 4

                                                                = 10,000,000 $

Cost of Debt = 9%

After tax cost of debt      = Coupon rate X (1 – Tax)

                                                = 0.09 X (1 – 0.30)

                                                = 0.063 or 6.3%

Value of Debt                    = C[(1 – (1/((1 + Kd)^t)))/Kd] + [FV/((1 + Kd)^t)]

Where C is the interest expense (50,000,000 X 9% = 4,500,000),

Kd is the current cost of Debt

T is the weighted average maturity, and

FV represents the face value of total debt (51,750,000 – 1,750,000 = 50,000,000)

               

                                                = 4,500,000[(1-(1/((1+0.09)^10)))/0.09] + [50,000,000/((1+0.09)^10)]

                                                = 59,796,406

Total Market value of firm            = [{150,000,000/(150,000,000+10,000,000+62,376,911)} X 0.14]

                                                                + [{10,000,000/(150,000,000+10,000,000+62,376,911)} X 0.2]

                                                                + [{62,376,911/(150,000,000+10,000,000+62,376,911)} X 0.09] X (1-.3)

                                                               

= .1211 or 12.11 %

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