Corporate Finance Spring 2024 - Session 20: Optimizing Debt Mix - APV and Peer Group Pressure

We started this class with the adjusted present value approach, where we begin with the unlevered firm value, and then add the tax benefits of debt and net out expected bankruptcy costs. While you can download the APV spreadsheet that I have online, I don’t really see a need to do the APV analysis of your company’s capital structure, since the expected bankruptcy cost is a black box. We then looked at peer group analysis, where companies decide how much to borrow by looking at what other companies in the sector do. You can check out the debt ratios for other companies in your sector by going to my website: US industry averages: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pc/datasets/dbtfund.xls Global industry averages: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pc/datasets/dbtfundGlobal.xls Slides: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/podcasts/cfspr24/session20slides.pdf Post class test: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pdfiles/cfovhds/session20test.pdf Post class test solution: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pdfiles/cfovhds/session20soln.pdf