Calculate Wishing Well's Motel Chain WACC
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Table 19.3 shows a book balance sheet for the Wishing Well Motel chain. The company’s long-term debt is secured by its real estate assets, but it also uses short-term bank financing. It pays 10 percent interest on the bank debt and 9 percent interest on the secured debt. Wishing Well has 10 million shares of stock outstanding, trading at $90 per share. The expected return on Wishing Well’s common stock is 18 percent.
Calculate Wishing Well’s WACC. Assume that the book and market values of Wishing Well’s debt are the same. The marginal tax rate is 35 percent.
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Suppose Wishing Well is evaluating a new motel and resort on a romantic site in Madison County, Wisconsin. Explain how you would forecast the after-tax cash flows for this project. (Hints: How would you treat taxes? Interest expense? Changes in working capital?)
To finance the Madison County project, Wishing Well will have to arrange an additional $80 million of long-term debt and make a $20 million equity issue. Underwriting fees, spreads, and other costs of this financing will total $4 million. How would you take this into account in valuing the proposed investment?
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Table 19.3 shows a book balance sheet for the Wishing Well Motel chain. The company's long-term debt is secured by its real estate assets, but it also uses short-term bank financing. It pays 10 percent interest on the bank debt and 9 percent interest on the secured debt. Wishing Well has 10 million shares of stock outstanding, trading at $90 per share. The expected return on Wishing Well's common stock is 18 percent.
Calculate Wishing Well's WACC. Assume that the book and market values of Wishing Well's debt are the same. The marginal ...
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