The company name is Costco Wholesale Estimate cost of equity Select...

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The company name is Costco Wholesale

  1. Estimate cost of equity
    • Select a model for estimating cost of equity, e.g. CAPM
    • Research input values required by the selected model
    • Compute cost of equity
  2. Estimate terminal value
    • Select a model for estimating terminal value
    • Research input values required by the selected model
    • Compute terminal value
  3. Estimate value of equity
    • Combine terminal value with free cash flows to equity from the last assignment to determine total cash flows to equity for your target company
    • Estimate the value of equity by computing the present value of total cash flows to equity using the cost of equity as the discount rate
    • Compute the estimated price per share
  4. Scenario analysis
    • Propose best case and worst case scenarios
    • Compute the value of equity (total and per share) in each scenario
  5. Sensitivity analysis
    • Identify input variable(s) that you consider would have the greatest impact on the estimate equity value
    • Perform sensitivity analysis (e.g. using Data Table in Excel) and compute estimated value of equity per share at different levels of these input variable(s)

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