Finance Project Report

Ropela
WalmartWACC.xls

Sheet1

Input Data (Millions Except Per Share Data) Source
Tax rate 30.92%
Debt (D) $42,018,000,000 Morningstar Bonds + 10K Note 5 42,018 (Long-term debt and long-term capital lease and financing obligations)
Number of common shares (n) 2,987,000,000 Google Finance https://ycharts.com/companies/WMT/shares_outstanding
Stock price per share (P) $80.08 Wall Street Journal (Yahoo Finance)
Capital Structure (Millions Except Per Share Data)
Market value of equity (S = P ´ n) $239,198,960,000
Total value (V = D + S) $281,216,960,000
Percent financed with debt (wd = D/V) 14.9415%
Percent financed with stock (ws = S/V) 85.0585%
Cost of Capital
Cost of debt (rd) 2.78% Morningstar Bonds Weighted cost of debt
Beta (b) 0.27 Beta from 5 years data
Risk-free rate (rRF) 2.77% 30 Year Treasury Yield, WSJ, 4/5/13 https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield
Market Return (Rm) 11.69%
Market risk premium (RPM) 8.92%
Cost of equity from CAPM (rs = rRF + b ´ RPM ) 5.19%
Cost of Equity from Dividend Growth Model
Future Dividend Growth Rate 6.50%
2012 Dividend $ 1.4600
Share Price $ (1/1/2012) $ 52.83
Cost of Equity from Dividend Growth Model 9.44%
Cost of Equity from Bond Plus Markup
Cost of debt 2.78%
Risk Markup 7.31%
Cost of Equity from Bond Plus Markup 10.10%
Average rs 8.2%
WACC 7.30%

Sheet2

2017 2016 2015
Provision for income taxes 6,204 6,558 7,985
Income from continuing operations before income taxes 20,497 21,638 24,799
Tax Rate 30.27% 30.31% 32.20%
Average Tax Rate 30.92%
2012-01 1.46
2017-01 2
1.3698630137
Dividend Growth Rate 6.50%

Sheet3