Daimler AG’s Cost of Capital

825 to 1100 words of identifying the cost of each type of financing, their weight in company’s capital structure and overall cost of capital for Daimler AG. By referring to information provided in Daimler AG’s annual report and analysing their cost and weight on the capital structure using the tools provided in chapters 1 to 16 of Brealey’s Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, the report should determine the overall cost of capital of Daimler AG. Relevant information can be found in the document provided. This paper will require the writer to report their findings (calculations and workings included) on Daimler AG after: ¬ Listing all Daimler AG’s types of capital (loans, bonds, common stock, preferred stock, etc). (simply listing them. I have not looked into it much, but as far as I saw in Daimler AG’s webpage, they only had Shares and bonds as their types of capital, although you should be able to list them better). ¬ Estimating the cost of each type of financing. ¬ Determining the weight of each type of financing in the capital structure. ¬ Determining the overall cost of capital.