INTRODUCTION
Only a brief description of the original case discussion is included below. The numbers were purposely omitted.
The case provides us with relevant information about Boeing and the 777 project. It includes an estimative for the future cash flows for the 777 project, information about competitors and market. In addition, the case provides us some analysts' forecast and assumptions to analyse the project.
The main problem in this case is choosing a cost of capital against which to compare the IRR.
The difficulty here is that since the 777 project is related exclusively to the commercial aircraft segment, its risk is not comparable to the company as a whole because Boeing's revenues come from both the defense and the commercial aircraft segments.
Therefore we have the task to find out what is the particular risk attached to a project held in the commercial sector of Boeing. The first part of this paper tries to clearly detail how we estimated the cost of capital, the method we used and the assumptions we made.
We took the following steps to evaluate the Boeing 777 project:
1. Determined the WACC variables
1.1 Risk free Interest Rate (Rf)
1.2 Market Risk Premium (Rm - Rf)
1.3 Boeing's Pre-Investment Weight of Debt (Wd) and Weight of Equity (We)
1.4 Boeing's Pre-Investment Beta on Equity (ße)
1.5 Boeing's Pre-Investment Beta on Assets (ßa)
1.6 Boeing's Post-Investment Beta on Debt (ßd)
1.7 Boeing's Post-Investment Weight of Debt (Wd) and Weight of Equity (We)
1.8 Boeing's Post-Investment Beta on Equity (ße)
1.9 Boeing's Commercial Division Post-Investment Beta on Equity (ße)
1.10 Boeing's Commercial Division Post-Invest ...