2022-04-13 The Cost of Capital

THE COST OF CAPITAL
 Sources of Capital
 Component Costs
 Adjusting for Flotation Costs
 WACC
 Adjusting for Risk
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What sources of capital do firms use?
Capital
Debt Preferred Stock Common Equity
Notes Retained New Common

Long-Term Debt
Payable Earnings Stock
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Calculating the Weighted Average Cost of Capital
WACC = wdrd(1 – T) + wprp + wcrs
The w’s refer to the firm’s capital structure weights.

The r’s refer to the cost of each component.

Should our analysis focus on before-tax or after-tax
capital costs?
Stockholders focus on after-tax CFs.

We should focus on after-tax capital costs; i.e., use
after-tax costs of capital in WACC.
 Only rd needs adjustment, because interest is tax
deductible.

Should our analysis focus on historical (embedded)
costs or new (marginal) costs?
 The cost of capital is used primarily to make decisions that
involve raising new capital or investment in the secondary
market
So, focus on today’s marginal costs (for WACC)

How are the weights determined?

Use accounting numbers or market value (book vs.
market weights)?
Use actual numbers or target capital structure?

Overview of Coleman Technologies Inc.
 Firm calculating cost of capital for major expansion program.
• Tax rate = 40%.
• 15-year, 12% coupon, semiannual payment noncallable bonds sell for $1,153.72.
New bonds will be privately placed with no flotation cost.
• 10%, $100 par value, quarterly dividend, perpetual preferred stock sells for $111.10.
• Common stock sells for $50. D0 = $4.19 and g = 5%.
• b = 1.2; rRF = 7%; RPM = 6%.
• Bond-Yield Risk Premium = 4%.
• Target capital structure: 30% debt, 10% preferred, 60% common equity.

Review of Coleman’s Capital Structure
Book Market
Target
Value Value
Debt (includes notes payable) 48% 25% 30%
Preferred stock 2 5 10
Common equity 50 70 60
Number of shares not given in problem, so actual calculations cannot

be done. Analysis is meant for illustration. Typically, book value capital
structure will show a higher percentage of debt because a typical firm’s
M/B ratio > 1.

Component Cost of Debt
 rd is the marginal cost of debt capital.

 The yield to maturity on outstanding L-T debt is often used as a measure
of rd.
 Why tax-adjust; i.e., why rd(1 – T)?

A 15-year, 12% semiannual coupon bond sells for $1,153.72.
What is the cost of debt (rd)?
 Remember, the bond pays a semiannual coupon, so rd = 5.0% x 2 = 10%.
INPUTS 30 -1153.72 60 1000
N I/YR PV PMT FV
OUTPUT 5

Component of Cost of Debt
Interest is tax deductible, so

AT rd = BT rd(1 – T)
= 10%(1 – 0.40) = 6%
Use nominal rate
Flotation costs are small, so ignore them

Component Cost of Preferred Stock
 rp is the marginal cost of preferred stock, which is the return

investors require on a firm’s preferred stock.
 Preferred dividends are not tax-deductible, so no tax adjustments
necessary. Just use nominal rp.
 Our calculation ignores possible flotation costs.
What is the cost of preferred stock?
The cost of preferred stock can be solved by using

this formula:
rp = Dp/Pp
= $10/$111.10
= 9%

Is preferred stock more or less risky to
investors than debt?
 More risky; company not required to pay preferred dividend.
 Firms try to pay preferred dividend. Otherwise-
Cannot pay common dividend,
Difficult to raise additional funds,
 Preferred stockholders may gain control of firm.

Why is the yield on preferred stock lower than debt?
 Preferred stock will often have a lower BT yield than the BT

yield on debt.
• Corporations own most preferred stock, so 70% of preferred
dividends are excluded from corporate taxation.
 The AT yield to an investor, and the AT cost to the issuer, are
higher on preferred stock than on debt. Consistent with higher
risk of preferred stock.

Component Cost of Equity
 rs is the marginal cost of common equity using retained

earnings.
 The rate of return investors require on the firm’s common equity
using new equity is re.

Why is there a cost for retained earnings?
 Earnings can be reinvested or paid out as dividends.
 Investors could buy other securities, earn a return.
 If earnings are retained, there is an opportunity cost (the return that
stockholders could earn on alternative investments of equal risk).
• Investors could buy similar stocks and earn r s.
• Firm could repurchase its own stock and earn r s.

Three Ways to Determine the Cost of Common Equity, rs
 CAPM: rs = rRF + (rM – rRF)b
 DCF: rs = (D1/P0) + g
 Bond-Yield-Plus-Risk-Premium:
rs = rd + RP

Find the Cost of Common Equity Using
the CAPM Approach
rRF = 7%
RPM = 6%, and
Firm’s beta is 1.2
rs = rRF + (rM – rRF)b
= 7.0% + (6.0%)1.2 = 14.2%

Find the Cost of Common Equity Using
the DCF Approach

Can DCF methodology be applied if growth is
not constant?
Yes, nonconstant growth stocks are expected to attain
constant growth at some point, generally in 5 to 10
years.
May be complicated to calculate.

Find rs Using the
Bond-Yield-Plus-Risk-Premium Approach
rd = 10% and RP = 4%.
 This RP is not the same as the CAPM RPM.
 This method produces a ballpark estimate of r s, and can serve
as a useful check.
rs = rd + RP
rs = 10.0% + 4.0% = 14.0%

What is a reasonable final estimate of rs?
Method Estimate
CAPM 14.2%
DCF 13.8
rd + RP 14.0
Range = 13.8%-14.2%, might use midpoint of range, 14%.

Why is the cost of retained earnings cheaper than the cost of issuing new
common stock?
 When a company issues new common stock they also have to

pay flotation costs to the underwriter
 Issuing new common stock may send a negative signal to the
capital markets, which may depress the stock price

If new common stock issue incurs a flotation cost of
15% of the proceeds, what is re?
D 0 (1  g)
re   g
P0 (1  F )
$4.19(1.05 )
  5 .0 %
$50(1  0.15 )
$4.3995
  5 .0 %
$42.50
 15.4%

What is the firm’s WACC (ignoring flotation costs)?

= 0.3(10%)(0.6) + 0.1(9%) + 0.6(14%)
= 1.8% + 0.9% + 8.4%
= 11.1%

What factors influence a company’s composite WACC?
Factors the firm cannot control:

 Market conditions such as interest rates and tax rates.
Factors the firm can control:
 Firm’s capital structure.
 Firm’s dividend policy.
 The firm’s investment policy.
Firms with riskier projects generally have a higher WACC

Should the company use the composite WACC as the hurdle rate for each of
its projects?
 NO! The composite WACC reflects the risk of an average project undertaken by the firm.
Therefore, the WACC only represents the “hurdle rate” for a typical project with average
risk.
 Different projects have different risks. The project’s WACC should be adjusted to reflect
the project’s risk.
 The next slide illustrates the importance of risk-adjusting the cost of capital. Note, if the
company correctly risk-adjusted the WACC, then it would select Project L and reject
Project H. Alternatively, if the company didn’t risk-adjust and instead used the composite
WACC for all projects, it would mistakenly select Project H and reject Project L.

Divisional Cost of Capital

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THE COST OF CAPITAL

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA 1

Debt Preferred Stock Common Equity

Notes Retained New Common

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

WACC = wdrd(1 – T) + wprp + wcrs

The w’s refer to the firm’s capital structure weights.

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

Stockholders focus on after-tax CFs.

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

So, focus on today’s marginal costs (for WACC)

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

WACC = wdrd(1 – T) + wprp + wcrs

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

Number of shares not given in problem, so actual calculations cannot

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

WACC = wdrd(1 – T) + wprp + wcrs

 rd is the marginal cost of debt capital.

 Why tax-adjust; i.e., why rd(1 – T)?

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INPUTS 30 -1153.72 60 1000

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

Interest is tax deductible, so

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

WACC = wdrd(1 – T) + wprp + wcrs

 rp is the marginal cost of preferred stock, which is the return

The cost of preferred stock can be solved by using

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Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

 Preferred stock will often have a lower BT yield than the BT

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

WACC = wdrd(1 – T) + wprp + wcrs

 rs is the marginal cost of common equity using retained

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

 CAPM: rs = rRF + (rM – rRF)b

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Range = 13.8%-14.2%, might use midpoint of range, 14%.

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

 When a company issues new common stock they also have to

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

WACC = wdrd(1 – T) + wprp + wcrs

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

Factors the firm cannot control:

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Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

Managerial Finance 701 Prepared by: Meer Sajed-ul Basher FCA

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