Leverage and Capital Structure: Chapter 13
Key Concepts and Skills
Understand the effect of financial leverage on cash flows and cost of equity
Understand the impact of taxes and bankruptcy on capital structure choice
Understand the basic components of bankruptcy FINS1613 Business Finance
Week 10
Chapter 13
Capital Structure:
Theory and Evidence
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Revision Week 9
Chapter 13 Outline
Chapter 12
¾ We learnt how to determine RE, RD, RP using various methods
The Capital Structure Question
¾ We learnt how to calculate weights for RE, RD, RP for WACC
The Effect of Financial Leverage
¾ We learnt how to calculate tax with classical and imputation tax systems Capital Structure and the Cost of Equity
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We learnt l t when h tto calculate l l t WACC with ith classical l i l and d iimputation t ti tax systems four different ways following Officer (1994)
Capital
Corporate Taxes and Capital Structure
Bankruptcy Costs
Optimal Capital Structure
Observed Capital Structures
Chapter 15
¾ We learnt about the various ways firms issue (raise) capital
¾ Equity – IPOs, Secondary equity offerings; Debt – long-term bonds
¾ We learnt how to calculate underpricing of IPOs
¾ IPO spread, direct costs, indirect costs
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WHAT IS THE CAPITAL STRUCTURE
Definition: Capital structure mode of financing used to finance investments
¾ It is the proportion of Debt, Equity, Hybrids (etc.) that comprise the overall value of the firm
1. Understand capital structure
2. What is the impact of leverage on the firm’s risk (i.e., understand financial risk)
3. Understand the ‘capital structure irrelevance’ theory of
Modigliani and Miller (MM).
(MM)
4. Explain the impact of taxes and other factors on capital structure decisions.
5. Consider the empirical evidence on capital structure.
6. Outline the main factors that financial managers should consider when determining a firm’s financing strategy.
¾ [Recall that Value = Debt + Equity + Hybrids +...]
Optimal capital structure:
¾ The structure that maximizes Shareholder wealth by minimizing WACC
Target capital structure:
¾ The structure that management deems ideal
¾ This need not equal the optimal capital structure
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ISSUES IN DETERMINING THE CAPITAL STRUCTURE?
Choosing a Capital Structure
Overall issue: How should the firm finance
What is the primary goal of financial
managers?
– Maximise shareholder wealth
investments?
Steps:
1 Determine the financing choices
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2. Analyze the impact of these choices on the firm’s market value
3. Determine the optimal structure
We want ant to choose the capital str structure ct re that
will maximise shareholder wealth
We can maximise shareholder wealth by
maximising firm value or minimising WACC
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WHAT ARE THE CHOICES
The Effect of Leverage
Should the firm use retained earnings or seek external
How does leverage affect the EPS and ROE of a
financing?
¾ How much capital must be raised externally versus internally? When we increase the amount of debt financing,
firm? we increase the fixed interest expense
If we have a really yg good yyear, then we p pay y our
If external financing, g, fixed cost and we have more left over for our shareholders If we have a really bad year, we still have to pay our fixed costs and we have less left over for our shareholders Leverage amplifies the variation in both EPS and
ROE
¾ How much should it borrow
¾ How much should it raise through issuing shares
Financier:
¾ Should the firm use an intermediary (i.e., a bank or institution) or should the firm go directly to investors
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Capital Restructuring
The Effect of Leverage (continued)
We are going to look at how changes in capital
The extent to which debt is used in the capital
structure affect the value of the firm, all else equal
Capital restructuring involves changing the amount of leverage a firm has without changing the firm’s assets
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