Cost of equity query

Am summarizing for two cases :

1) Incase company wants to raise new funds

Mathematically will be that you incorporate the negative value of equity in the overall WACC formula and calculate interest rate. But there is an intuitive angle to it , consider if the cost of equity becomes negative, it implies that investors of long term finance (equity investors) find it more costly to invest the money than keep it with themselves.

For example if A wants to invest 100 in a company, he will be better off keeping the 100 with himself than investing in a company if the rate of return of equity is negative.

Thus while calculating WACC, you'll assume equity as an option does not exist and caclulate with debt only, since equity capital is not available as a source of finance.

2) WACC of existing capital structure of the company

In this case , I think , the CAPM gives a misleading result , it will be better to use the dividen yield plus growth model to estimate the price of equity. It gives a more stable result.

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