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Dividend Discount Model is commonly used to value financial institutions, so considering banks have fundamentally different uses for working capital and debt, you can't use the regular WACC calculation for discount rt b/c debt in theory is considered inventory. Banks make money off of the spread of interest rates, so therefore debt can be considered a product. Since debt isn't used as part of the capital structure, in order to keep apples-to-apples theme, you must use cost of equity as discount rt as well levered free cash flow. Levered free cash flow b/c interest has already been accounted for, so therefore the remaining is only available to equity investors, which is apples-to-apples w/ cost of equity.

 

You can use CAPM to calculate cost of equity. Expected return on investment = Risk free rate (Rf) + B * (E{market} - Rf), E{market} is the expected return on market. The model assumes that people have the same return on the market for their investments. Also, share price is current year's, but dividend is next year's.

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