Financial Management Case Study, Vulcan Materials
Topic: Cost of Capital, Capital Structure, and Capital Budgeting Analysis.
In this project, you are supposed to be a financial manager working for a big corporation and you have to apply the knowledge obtained from the financial management (FINC6352) course to determine the cost of debt, cost of preferred stock, cost of common equity, capital structure, and the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for a publicly-traded company of your choice. You will use the WACC as the discount rate to conduct capital budgeting analysis for a project that the firm is considering and then decide whether it should be accepted or not. Your projects must be typed and well-organized. You will receive a separate set of instructions for this project.
- Apply knowledge from attached Financial Management Textbook-financial management (FINC6352) course to estimate the following:
- the cost of debt, the
- cost of preferred stock, the
- cost of common equity,
- capital structure, and the
- weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for a publicly-traded company – Vulcan Materials. You can use the WACC that you obtained from previous steps as the discount rate to perform capital budgeting analysis for a project that the firm is considering and decide whether the project should be accepted.
