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Consider two companies: United States steel (X) and Facebook(FB). Look at the profiles (financial statements for 2016) of eachon yahoo finance and discuss the followings (you need to calculatethese values yourself and show details of your calculations): Howmany outstanding shares the company has? What is the market valueof the company? What is the book value of the company? What is thebeta for the company? How do you find the risk free rate? (considerthe market risk premium to be 8%) Using CAPM calculate the expectedreturn on the equity for the company. (To get the required rate ofreturn on debt, divide the interest expense by total debt) (To getthe total debt, add the short term debt to long term debt) What isthe Weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for the company? Whatis the leverage (total debt/equity ratio) for the company?