Setting The Optimal Capital Structure in Practice
Lecture Outline
1. Capital Structure Effects
2. Business versus financial risk
3. The impact of debt on returns
4. Capital Structure Theory (MM, Miller, Trade-off, Signaling)
5. Example: Choosing the Optimal Capital Structure
6. Setting the capital structure in practice
7. The Effect of Additional Debt on WACC & FCF
8. Operating Breakeven
9. Consider Two Hypothetical Firms
10. Impact of Leverage on Returns
11. Debt Financing and Agency Costs
12. Estimates of Cost of Debt
13. The Cost of Equity at Different Levels of Debt: Hamada's Equation
14. WACC vs. Leverage
15. Corporate Value vs. Leverage
16. Debt and Stock Value vs. Leverage
17. Wealth of Shareholders
18. Number of Shares Repurchased
19. Price per Share vs. Leverage
Capital structure decision is concerned with the sources of long term funds such as debt and equity capital. Capital structure is defined as the mix of various long term sources of funds broadly classified as debt and equity. Hence capital structure is also referred to as 'Debt Equity Mix' of a company.
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