Financial Management (Cost of Capital)
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Cost of Capital
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Chapter Outline
- Cost of capital and its importance.
- Discount rates used to analyze investments.
- Valuation and application to bonds, preferred stock, and common stock.
- Minimum cost of capital.
- Increase in cost of capital with increase in utilization of finances.
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Cost of Capital
- In corporate finance, an investment made is for an anticipated return in future.
- Knowing the appropriate discount rate is vital.
- Return on investments must, in the least garner a return equaling the costs incurred to acquire it – the minimum acceptable return.
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The Overall Concept
- An investment:
- Should not be judged against the specific means of financing used to implement it.
- This would make investment selection decisions inconsistent.
- With a low-cost debt, must be chosen carefully.
- May result in increase of the overall risk.
- May make all eventual forms of financing more expensive.
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Cost of Capital – Baker Corporation
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Cost of Debt
- Measured by interest rate, or yield, paid to bondholders.
- Example: $1000 bond paying $100 annual interest – 10% yield.
- Calculation is complex discount rate or premium from par value bonds.
- To determine the cost of a new debt in the marketplace:
- The firm will compute the yield on its currently outstanding debt.
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Approximate Yield to Maturity (Y')
Annual interest payment +
Number of years to maturity
0.6 (Price of the bond) + 0.4 (Principal payment)
- Assuming:
Y' = $101. 50 +
20
.6 ($940) + .4 ($1,000)
= $101.50 +
20
$564 + $400
= $101.50 + 3 = $104.50 = 10.84%
$964 $964
Principal payment – Price of the bond
$1,000 - $940
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Adjusting Yield for Tax Considerations
- Yield to maturity indicates how much the firm has to pay on a before-tax basis.
- Interest payment on a debt is a tax-deductible expense.
- Due to this, the true cost is less than the stated cost.
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Adjusting Yield for Tax Considerations (cont’d)
- The after-tax cost of debt is calculated as shown below:
- Assuming:
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Cost of Preferred Stock
- A constant annual payment with no maturity date for the principal payment.
- Computed by dividing dividend payment by net price or proceeds received.
- Represents the rate of return to preferred stockholders and annual cost to corporation for issue.
- Preferred stock dividend is not a tax-deductible expense, with no downward tax adjustment.
- The proceeds to the firm equals selling price in the market minus flotation costs.
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Cost of Preferred Stock (cont’d)
- The cost of preferred stock is as follows:
- Where,
= Cost of preferred stock; = Annual dividend on preferred stock; = Price of preferred stock; F = Floatation, or selling cost
- Assuming the annual dividend as $10.50, the preferred stock is $100, and the flotation, or selling cost is $4. The effective cost is:
= $10.50 = $10.50 = 10.94%
$100 - $4 $96
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Cost of Common Equity – Valuation Approach
- In determining the cost of common stock, the firm must be sensitive to the pricing and performance demands of current and future stockholders.
- Dividend valuation model:
- Where,
= Price of the stock today; = Dividend at the end of the year (or period); = Required rate of return; g = Constant growth rate in dividends.
- Assuming = $2; = $40 and g = 7%, is;
= $2 + 7% = 5% + 7% = 12%
$40
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Alternate Calculation of the Required Rate on Common Stock
- Capital asset pricing model (CAPM)
- Where:
= Required return on common stock; = Risk-free rate of return, usually the current rate on Treasury bill securities; = Beta coefficient (measures the historical volatility of an individual stock’s return relative to a stock market index; = return in the market as measured by an approximate index.
- Assuming = 5.5%, = 12%, = 1.0, would be:
= 5.5% + 1.0 (12% - 5.5%) = 5.5% + 1.0 (6.5%)
= 5.5% + 6.5% = 12%
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Cost of Retained Earnings
- Sources of capital for common stock equity:
- Purchaser of the new shares – external source.
- Retained earnings – internal source.
- Represent the present and past earnings of the firm minus previously distributed dividends.
- Belong to the current stockholders – may be paid in the form of dividends or reinvested in the firm.
- Reinvestments represent a source of equity capital supplied by the current stockholders.
- An opportunity cost is involved.
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Cost of Retained Earnings (cont’d)
- The cost of retained earnings is equivalent to the rate of return on the firm’s cost of common cost representing the opportunity cost.
- Thus represents both the required rate of return on common stock, and the cost of equity in the form of retained earnings.
- For ease of reference,
= Cost of common equity in the form of retained earnings.
= Dividend at the end of the first year, $2.
= Price of stock today, $40.
g = Constant growth rate in dividends, 7%.
= $2 + 7% = 5% + 7% = 12%
$40
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Cost of New Common Stock
- A slightly higher return than , representing the required rate of return of present stockholders, is expected.
- Needed to cover the distribution costs of the new securities.
Common stock
New common stock
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Cost of New Common Stock (cont’d)
- Assuming = $2, = $40, F (Flotation or selling costs) = $4 and g = 7%;
= $2 + 7%
$40 - $4
= $2 + 7%
$32
= 5.6% + 7% = 12.6%
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Overview of Common Stock Costs
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Optimal Capital Structure – Weighting Costs
- The desire to achieve a minimum overall capital cost of capital.
- Calculated decisions are required on the appropriate weights for:
- Debt
- Preferred stock
- Common stock financing.
- Capital mix is determined by:
- Considering the present capital structure.
- Ascertaining if the current position is optimal.
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Optimal Capital Structure – Weighting Costs (cont’d)
- Assessment of different plans (next slide):
- Firm is able to initially reduce the weighted average cost of capital with debt financing
- Beyond Plan B, the continued use of debt becomes unattractive and greatly increases the costs of the sources of financing.
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Optimal Capital Structure – Weighting Costs (cont’d)
Cost (After-tax) Weights Weighted Cost
Financial Plan A:
Debt………………………… 6.5% 20% 1.3%
Equity………………………. 12.0 80 9.6
10.9%
Financial Plan B:
Debt………………………… 7.0% 40% 2.8%
Equity………………………. 12.5 60 7.5
10.3%
Financial Plan C:
Debt………………………… 9.0% 60% 5.4%
Equity………………………. 15.0 40 6.0
11.4%
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Cost of Capital Curve
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Debt as a Percentage of Total Assets (2006)
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Capital Acquisition and Investment Decision Making
- Financial capital consists of bonds, preferred and common stock.
- Money raised by sales of these securities and retained earnings is invested in:
- The real capital of the firm, the long-term productive assets of plant and equipment.
- To minimize cost of equity a firm may sell common stock when prices are relatively high.
- A balance between debt and equity is required to achieve minimum cost of capital.
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Cost of Capital Over Time
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Cost of Capital in the Capital Budgeting Decision
- Current costs of capital for each source of funds is important for capital budgeting decision.
- The required rate of return, will be the weighted average cost of capital.
- The common stock value of the firm will be maintained or increase, as long as the firm earns its cost of capital.
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Investment Projections Available to the Baker Corporation
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Cost of Capital and Investment Projects for the Baker Corporation
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The Marginal Cost of Capital
- The market may demand a higher cost of capital for each amount of fund required if a large amount of financing is required.
- Equity (ownership) capital is represented by retained earnings.
- Retained earnings cannot grow indefinitely as the firm’s capital needs to expand.
- Retained earning is limited to the amount of past and present earning that can be redeployed into investments.
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The Marginal Cost of Capital (cont’d)
- Assumptions:
- 60% is the amount of equity capital a firm must maintain to keep a balance between fixed income securities and ownership interest.
- Baker Corporation has 23.40 million of retained earning available for investment.
- There is adequate retained earning to support the capital structure as shown below:
- Assuming: X = Retained earnings ;
Percent of retained earnings in the capital structure
- Where X represents the size of the capital structure that retained earnings will support.
X = $23.40 million = $39 million.
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Cost of Capital for Different Amounts of Financing
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Increasing Marginal Cost of Capital
- Both and represent the cost of capital.
- The mc subscript after K indicates the increase in cost of capital
- Increase is because common equity is now in the form of new common stock rather than retained earnings.
- The after-tax cost of the new common stock is more expensive than retained earnings because of flotation costs.
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Increasing Marginal Cost of Capital (cont’d)
- Equation for the cost of new common stock:
= $2 + 7% = $2 + 7% = 5.6% + 7% = 12.6%
$40 - $4 $36
- The $50 million figure can be derived thus:
Z = Amount of lower-cost debt ;
Percent of debt in the capital structure
Z = $15 million = $50 million
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- Where Z represents the size of the capital structure in which lower-cost debt can be used.
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Cost of Capital for Increasing Amounts of Financing
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Changes in the Marginal Costs of Capital
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Marginal Cost of Capital and Baker Corporation Projects
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Cost of Components in the Capital Structure
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Performance of PAI and the Market
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Linear Regression of Returns Between PAI and the Market
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The Security Market Line (SML)
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The Security Market Line and Changing Interest Rates
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The Security Market Line and the Changing Investor Expectations