Syndicate 1 Nike Cost of Capital Final
Syndicate 1 Nike Cost of Capital Final
Syndicate 1 Nike Cost of Capital Final
The WACC is used to discount future cash flows. Therefore must be a reflection of
the company’s future ability to raising capital.
Cost of capital based on market value not book value
Cohen is wrong to use book values as the basis for debt and equity weights; the
market values should be used instead. The reasoning of using market weights to
estimate WACC is that it is how much it will cause the firm to raise capital today.
Market value of equity (E) = Current Share Price x Average Shares Outstanding
= $42.09 x 273.3mil
= $11,503mil.
4. Cost of equity
We estimated the cost of equity using the captital asset pricing model CAPM.
Using CAPM for calculate RE:
RE = RRF + (RM – RRF) x Beta
RE = 5.74% + 5.9% x 0.69
= 9.811%
Given that
RRF = 5.74% (20 year yield on us treasuries)
RM-RRF = 5.9% (geometric mean)
Beta = 0.69 (most recent beta)