For your 5 assigned companies, use Bloomberg to examine the companies weighted average cost of capital. Use the WACC function.

use the following table to answer the questions below:

(10 points) Discuss whether your assigned companies have very similar or very different costs of capital (WACCs). In your discussion, explain why you think your WACCs differ or do not differ. For example, if one company has a higher WACC or a lower WACC than another, why do you think this is the case?

(10 points) Examining the pattern of WACC over time (see the little graph at the bottom of the WACC page), discuss the trend in WACC over the last decade for each company. Are the patterns similar or different? What factors explain a higher WACC?

Company l Company 2. Company 3 Company 4 Company 5 Company's ticker KOPN JUSF AIR RHI WOR. 87.4% 100.0% 84.2% 100.0% Weight of common 99.9% equity 0.1% 12.6% 15.8% Weight of debt 0.0% 0.0% Weight of preferred 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% equity WACC I% of long-term debt 125 0.0% 15.8% 0.0% 0.0% Total value (in 2,478.7 1,352.1 189.6 6,234.9 3,656.2 millions) Industry