Investment banking firm
Scenario: You work for an investment banking firm and have been asked by management of Vestor Corporation (not real), a software development company, to calculate its weighted average cost of capital, to use in evaluating a new company investment. The firm is considering a new investment in a warehousing facility, which it believes will generate an internal rate of return of 11.5%. The market value of Vestor’s capital structure is as follows:
Source of Capital
Market Value
Bonds
$10,000,000
Preferred Stock
$2,000,000
Common Stock
$8,000,000
Determine what discount rate (WACC) Vestor should use to evaluate the warehousing facility project.To finance the investment, Vestor has issued 20 year bonds with a $1,000 par value, 6% coupon rate and at a market price of $950. Preferred stock paying a $2.50 annual dividend was sold for $25 per share. Common stock of Vestor is currently selling for $50 per share and has a Beta of 1.2. The firm’s tax rate is 34%. The expected market return of the S&P 500 is 13% and the 10-Year Treasury note is currently yielding 3.5%.
Assess whether Vestor should make the warehouse investment.
Prepare your analysis in a minimum of 700 words in Microsoft® Word.
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Weighted Average Cost of Capital,(WACC)can be obtained from the following equation.
Where = cost of equity
= weight of equity in a company’s total capital
= after tax cost of debt
= weight of the company’s debt
Current market value of equity = preferred stock + common stock
= $ 2,000,000 + $ 8,000,000 = $ 10,000,000
Current market value of bonds = 10,000,000………………………………
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