...Kenneth M. Eades A business analyst at Mead Corporation had just begun the process of estimating Mead's cost of capital for the fourth quarter of 1990. As part of her analysis, she hoped to explain why the cost of equity had increased and recommend whether the company should consider the increase...

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... is asked to compute divisional costs of capital and see if they can be reconciled with the company's reported cost of capital, 11%. “At PepsiCo Inc., cola was king, but it is quietly being dethroned.” It was this lead sentence of a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal...

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... operating expectations and capital costs. This otherwise straightforward valuation exercise is enhanced by (1) the need to select between the parent- or comparable-firm costs of capital, (2) sufficient guidance to perform an illuminating sensitivity analysis, and (3) a sufficiently clear and rich context...

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...Kenneth M. Eades To assess whether a company should enter the household-products market, Procter and Gamble's weighted-average cost of capital is computed. Clorox's cost of capital is also computed as a check on the P&G estimate. The case emphasizes the conceptual as well as mechanical aspects...

... methods of estimating the weighted-average cost of capital (WACC) for GrandMet and its three main business segments, and must then produce WACC estimates in order to evaluate the firm's performance. GrandMet's pace of acquisition and divestiture accelerated during the 1980s. Its major acquisitions...