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Q3: Capital budgeting and cost of capital
Reno Co is considering a project that will cost...
Q3: Capital budgeting and cost of capital
Reno Co is considering a project that will cost $ 26,000 and
result in the following cash flows:
Years
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
Project Cash flow
|
10,000
|
11,500
|
12,600
|
14,800
|
The views of the directors of Reno Co are that all investment
projects must be evaluated over four years of operations using net
present value. You have given the information below to assist you
to calculate the appropriate discount rate:
- Reno Co has 1.3 million shares of stock outstanding and the
stock currently sell for $20 per share. The market value of the
debt is $4.56 million and cost of debt is 6.061%
- The risk free rate is 3.5588% and the market risk premium is
10%
- You have estimated that Reno Co has a beta of 0.75
- Corporate tax rate is 34%
Required:
- Estimate cost of equity using CAPM and define the security
market line.
- Estimate the cost of capital.
- Evaluate the investment project using the NPV criteria and cost
of capital estimated above.
- State clearly any limitations and assumptions that you made in
your calculations.