(3) Estimate Capital Structure
- Estimate the firm’s weights of debt, preferred stock, and common stock using the firm’s balance sheet (book value).
- Estimate the firm’s weights of debt, preferred stock, and common stock using the market value of each capital component.
(4) Compute Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
(35 points)
- Estimate the firm’s before-tax and after-tax component cost of debt; (Note: If the information about the current corporate tax rate is not available, you need to estimate the tax rate based on the historical tax payments).
- Estimate the firm’s component cost of preferred stock;
- Use three approaches (CAPM, DCF, bond-yield-plus-risk-premium) to estimate the component cost of common equity for the firm.
- Calculate the firm’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC) using the market-based capital weights.
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