Chapter 13
Valuation: Earnings-Based Approach
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e. The residual income amounts imply that all three firms will create substantial
amounts of shareholder wealth in Year +1. Microsoft is the largest firm of the
set and will create the largest amount of shareholder wealth (nearly $13 billion)
in Year +1, whereas Intel will generate over $4 billion of shareholder wealth in
Year +1, and Dell will create over $1.4 billion in shareholder wealth in Year
+1. Even though this is the smallest dollar amount of residual income, Dell is
creating the highest residual ROCE. Microsoft has the largest book value of
equity of this set of firms and the largest residual income (at least in Year +1),
which partially explains why it has the largest market value of equity.
13.15 Computing Residual Income.
a. Required return on equity capital:
Southwest Airlines ….. 4.0% + (1.10 × 5.0%) = 9.50%
Kroger …………………… 4.0% + (0.35 × 5.0%) = 5.75%
Yum! Brands ………….. 4.0% + (1.04 × 5.0%) = 9.20%