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In economics and accounting, the cost of capital is the cost of a company's funds (both debt and equity), or from an investor's point of view is "the required rate of return on a portfolio company's existing securities". [1] It is used to evaluate new projects of a company.
Cost of new equity should be the adjusted cost for any underwriting fees termed flotation costs (F): K e = D 1 /P 0 (1-F) + g; where F = flotation costs, D 1 is dividends, P 0 is price of the stock, and g is the growth rate. There are 3 ways of calculating K e: Capital Asset Pricing Model; Dividend Discount Method; Bond Yield Plus Risk Premium ...
A valuation multiple [1] is simply an expression of market value of an asset relative to a key statistic that is assumed to relate to that value. To be useful, that statistic – whether earnings, cash flow or some other measure – must bear a logical relationship to the market value observed; to be seen, in fact, as the driver of that market value.
The capital charge is the cash flow required to compensate investors for the riskiness of the business given the amount of economic capital invested. The cost of capital is the minimum rate of return on capital required to compensate investors (debt and equity) for bearing risk, their opportunity cost.
Weighted average cost of capital approach (WACC) Derive a weighted cost of the capital obtained from the various sources and use that discount rate to discount the unlevered free cash flows from the project; Advantages: Overcomes the requirement for debt capital finance to be earmarked to particular projects
With the cost of capital correctly and correspondingly adjusted, the valuation should yield the same result, [10] for standard cases. These approaches may be considered more appropriate for firms with negative free cash flow several years out, but which are expected to generate positive cash flow thereafter.
Three strategies have been used to obtain the market values of all the goods and services produced: the product (or output) method, the expenditure method, and the income method. The product method looks at the economy on an industry-by-industry basis. The total output of the economy is the sum of the outputs of every industry.
Calculating how much should be invested in an asset in order to achieve a desired result (i.e., purchasing a storage tank with a 20-year life, as opposed to one with a 5-year life, in order to achieve a similar EAC). [11] Comparing to estimated annual cost savings, in order to determine whether it makes economic sense to invest. [12]