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Cost of Capital
Financial management and control systems (Lecture 2)
Dr. Mahmoud Otaify
Assistant Professor of Finance
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LO1 Understand the basic concept of cost
of capital
LO2 Determine a firm’s cost of equity
capital.
LO3 Determine the cost of long-term debt
LO4 Calculate the weighted average cost
of capital (WACC)
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Weight
Amount $
Source
E/V=600,000/1000,000=0.6
600,000
Common Stocks (E)
P/V=150,000/1000,000=0.15
150,000
Preferred Stock (P)
D/V=250,000/1000,000=0.25
250,000
Bonds (D)
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1,000,000
Total value of capital
structure (V=E+P+D)
How Much? %
Symbol
Cost of Capital
SML
RE
Cost of Equity
DDM
RP
Cost of Preferred
YTM
RD
Pre-tax cost of
Debt
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Owners
+
Creditors
Require
rate of
return
Company
Use funds
to receive
more than
cost of
funds
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Debt
Financing
• If you want to finance project from banks
and bank requires 10% as interest (return),
the cost of debt capital is 10%
• Firm must earn at least 10% to pay the
interest payment.
Equity
Financing
• If you want to finance project from capital
market and investors require 8% return, the
cost of equity capital is 8%.
• Firm must earn at least 8% to compensate
investors for the use of the capital needed
to finance the project.
Cost of Debt Capital
• The return that lenders
require on the firm's debt.
Cost of Equity Capital
• The return that equity
investors require on their
investment in the firm.
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Expected return on the market –
risk-free rate of return
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E(RM) = 17% RF=12%
Beta =
1.2
RE=?
RE = 12%+ (17% - 12%) =
17%
RE = 12%+ 1.2*(17% - 12%) =
18%
E(RM) – RF
= 17 – 12 = 5%
CAPM
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Cost of
Common Stock
(SML)
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Compute cost of equity using the
SML
Risk-free rate, Rf
Market risk premium, E(RM) – Rf
Systematic risk of asset,
)
)
(
( f
M
E
f
E R
R
E
R
R
Example:
Company’s equity beta = 1.2
Current risk-free rate = 7%
Expected market risk premium = 6%
What is the cost of equity capital?
%
2
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14
)
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2
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1
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RE
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Cost of
Preferred
Stocks (Rp)
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Reminders
Preference shares generally pay a
constant dividend every period.
Dividends are expected to be paid
every period forever.
Preference share valuation is an
annuity, so we take the annuity
formula, rearrange and solve for RP.
RP = D/P0
Example
Your company has preference shares that
have an annual dividend of $3. If the current
price is $25, what is the cost of a preference
share?
RP = 3 / 25 = 12%
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Risk-
free
rate
Credit
Risk
Premiu
m
Required
Return by
Bondholders
A bond’s rating is used
to indicate its relative
probability of default
Yield on
Treasury
Securities
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The cost of debt = the required
return on a company’s debt.
Compute the yield to maturity on
existing Bond
𝒀𝑻𝑴 =
𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒐𝒏 +
𝑭𝑽 − 𝑩𝑽
𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚
𝑭𝑽 + 𝑩𝑽
𝟐
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Cost of
Debt
(Example)
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Suppose we have a bond issue currently outstanding that has
25 years left to maturity. The coupon rate is 9% and coupons.
The bond is currently selling for $908.72 per $1000 bond.
What is the cost of debt? Tax rate = 40%
Coupon = 1000*0.09 = 90
Semiannual coupon = 90/2 = 45
𝒀𝑻𝑴 =
𝟏𝟎𝟎
𝟏𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝟗𝟎𝟖.𝟕𝟐
𝟐𝟓
𝟏𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝟗𝟎𝟖.𝟕𝟐
𝟐
= 10%
Annual pretax cost = 5*2 = 10%
After-tax cost of Debt = RD (1- TC) = 10 x
(1 – 0.4 ) = 6%
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