For the following two stocks:

Walmart (WMT) https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WMT?p=WMT&.tsrc=fin-srch

Home Depot (HD) https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HD?p=HD&.tsrc=fin-srch

You may access the following financial websites:
Yahoo Finance
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WMT/
CNN Business
https://money.cnn.com/quote/financials/financials.html?symb=WMT
Gurufocus
https://www.gurufocus.com/stock/WMT/summary

 

Calculate Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) for both the above stocks

In Yahoo finance for the stock in reference, go to “Financials” in the menu options, and then “Balance Sheet” and for the last two recent years, get values of Total Debt, Total Equity (use market capitalization (# Shares issued * Share Price) from “Summary” tab.

Need to determine Cost of Debt and Cost of Equity.

Determine Weight of Debt and Weight of Equity.

Summarize your findings of WACC for both of them for the last two years.

Compare your computations of WACC for both of them against online estimates (Gurufocus):

Gurufocus WACC estimate forWalmart
https://www.gurufocus.com/term/wacc/WMT/WACC-Percentage/Walmart

Gurufocus WACC estimates for Home Depot
https://www.gurufocus.com/term/wacc/HD/WACC-Percentage/The-Home-Depot


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