Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting (HSTC:LGM) WACC % :0% (As of May. 14, 2024)

Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting WACC % Chart

Competitive Comparison of Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting's WACC %

For the Apparel Manufacturing subindustry, Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting's WACC %, along with its competitors' market caps and WACC % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting's WACC % Distribution in the Manufacturing - Apparel & Accessories Industry

For the Manufacturing - Apparel & Accessories industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting's WACC % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting's WACC % falls into.

Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting WACC % Calculation

The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is the rate that a company is expected to pay on average to all its security holders to finance its assets. The WACC is commonly referred to as the firm's cost of capital. Generally speaking, a company's assets are financed by debt and equity. WACC is the average of the costs of these sources of financing, each of which is weighted by its respective use in the given situation. By taking a weighted average, we can see how much interest the company has to pay for every dollar it finances.

Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting  (HSTC:LGM) WACC % Explanation

Because it costs money to raise capital. A firm that generates higher ROIC % than it costs the company to raise the capital needed for that investment is earning excess returns. A firm that expects to continue generating positive excess returns on new investments in the future will see its value increase as growth increases, whereas a firm that earns returns that do not match up to its cost of capital will destroy value as it grows.

As of today, Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting's weighted average cost of capital is 0%%. Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting's ROIC % is 0.00% (calculated using TTM income statement data). Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting earns returns that do not match up to its cost of capital. It will destroy value as it grows.

*Note: The beta of this company cannot be obtained because it has a price history shorter than 3 years. It will thus be set to 1 as default to calculate WACC.

1. GuruFocus uses book value of debt (D) to do the calculation. It is simplified by adding latest one-year annual average Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation together.
For companies that report quarterly, GuruFocus combines all of the most recent year's quarterly debt data from the beginning of the year to the year-end and calculates the average.
For companies that report semi-annually, GuruFocus combines all of the most recent year's semi-annual debt data from the start of the year to the year-end and calculates the average.
For companies that report annually, GuruFocus combines the beginning and ending annual debt data from the most recent year and then calculates the average.

2. The WACC formula discussed above does not include Preferred Stock. Please adjust if preferred stock is considered.

3. (Expected Return of the Market - Risk-Free Rate of Return) is also called market premium. GuruFocus requires market premium to be 6%.

4. GuruFocus uses the latest annual Interest Expense divided by the latest one-year annual average debt to get the simplified cost of debt.

Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting (HSTC:LGM) Business Description