COST OF CAPITAL AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE Clause Samples

The 'Cost of Capital and Capital Structure' clause defines how a company determines the expenses associated with raising funds and the mix of debt and equity it uses to finance its operations. This clause typically outlines the methods for calculating the cost of various capital sources, such as loans or shareholder investments, and may set limits or requirements on the proportion of debt versus equity. By establishing clear guidelines for funding and financial leverage, the clause helps ensure financial stability and transparency, while also managing the risks associated with excessive borrowing or undercapitalization.
COST OF CAPITAL AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE. 3.1 In determining the annual changes to distribution revenue and rates, the Settling Parties agreed that application of an overall capital structure and cost of capital as set forth in the table below, including a 9.2 percent return on equity is just and reasonable in the context of this Settlement Agreement taken as a whole: Component Percentage Cost Weighted Cost Tax Factor Pre-Tax Cost Common Equity 52.00% 9.20% 4.78% 1.371422 6.56% Long-Term Debt 48.00% 5.49% 2.64% 2.64% Total 100.00% 7.42% 9.20%
COST OF CAPITAL AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE. 3.1 In determining the annual changes to distribution revenue and rates, the Settling Parties agree that application of an overall capital structure and cost of capital as set forth in the table below, including a 9.30 percent return on equity, is just and reasonable in the context of this Settlement Agreement taken as a whole: Component Percentage Cost Weighted Cost Tax Factor Pre-Tax Cost Common Equity 52.00% 9.30% 4.84% 1.3714 6.63% Long-Term Debt 48.00% 4.93% 2.37% 2.37% Total 100.00% 7.20% 9.00% 1 Existing annual revenue collected in the COGC is $1,056,561 of which $476,106 is for production and storage capacity (“PS”) and $580,455 is for overhead (“MISC”). With this Settlement, the annual revenue collected in the COGC is $826,413 with $214,538 for PS and $611,875 for MISC.
COST OF CAPITAL AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE. 4.1 In determining the annual changes to distribution rate levels, the Settling Parties utilized an overall capital structure as set forth below, including a 9.67 percent return on equity: Component Percentage Cost Weighted Cost Common Equity 45.45% 9.67% 4.39% Preferred Stock Equity 0.16% 6.00% 0.01% Long-Term Debt 51.53% 7.60% 3.92% Short-Term Debt 2.86% 2.50% 0.07% Total 100.00% 8.39% 4.2 Except as otherwise specified herein, return on any deferred assets or liabilities arising during the term of this agreement will be calculated utilizing the weighted cost of capital specified above. 4.3 During the term of this Settlement Agreement, Unitil will maintain a capital structure that is similar, in terms of debt and equity component percentages, to the capital structure in Section 4.1.2
COST OF CAPITAL AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE. In determining the annual revenue increase and revenue requirement in Section 2.1, above, the Settling Parties utilized an overall capital structure as set forth below, including a 9.50 percent Return on Equity (▇▇▇): Component Weighted Percentage Cost Cost 1 Annual indirect costs consist of $420,658 of LP and LNG Production and Storage Capacity and $512,686 of Dispatching, Acquisition, Administration and General (“Miscellaneous Overhead”) expenses. Beginning July 1, 2013, a reconciliation of the difference between these expenses and those previously recorded in the Company’s COGC shall be assigned and included in the 2014-2015 Winter and 2015 Summer Period COGC Reconciliations. In subsequent COGCs these expenses will not be separately reconciled. Common Equity 51.76% 9.50% 4.92% Preferred Stock Equity 0.0% 0.00% 0.00% Long-Term Debt 47.56% 7.05% 3.35% Short-Term Debt 0.69% 2.01% 0.01% Total 100.00% 8.28%
COST OF CAPITAL AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE. In determining the annual revenue increase and revenue requirement in Section 2.1, above, the Settling Parties utilized an overall capital structure as set forth below, including a 9.50 percent Return on Equity (▇▇▇): Component Percentage Cost Weighted Cost Common Equity 51.70% 9.50% 4.91% Long-Term Debt 48.30% 5.55% 2.68% Total 100.00% 7.59% The cost of long-term debt above incorporates the issuance of long term debt by Northern approved by the Commission in docket DG 17-019. 1 Existing annual revenue collected in the COGC is $933,344 of which $420,658 is for production and storage capacity (PS) and $512,686 is for overhead (MISC). With this Settlement, the annual revenue collected in the COGC is $1,056,561 with $476,106 for PS and $580,455 for MISC.

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  • Organizational and Capital Structure The organizational structure and capital structure of Holdings and its Subsidiaries shall be as set forth on Schedule 4.1.

  • Capital Structure (i) As of the date of this Agreement, the authorized capital stock of the Company consists of 25,000,000 shares of Company Common Stock, of which 13,478,272 shares are issued and outstanding. All issued and outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Company are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. No class of Company capital stock is entitled to preemptive rights. None of the issued and outstanding shares of Company Common Stock have been issued in violation of any preemptive rights of current or past holders of any class of Company capital stock or are subject to any preemptive rights of current or past Company shareholders granted by the Company. As of the date of this Agreement, there are no outstanding options, warrants, indebtedness convertible into capital stock or other rights to acquire capital stock from the Company other than (i) Options representing in the aggregate the right to purchase 1,353,442 shares of Company Common Stock under the Company Stock Option Plan and (ii) up to 50,000 shares of Company Common Stock available under the ESPP. The Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth the name of each person holding outstanding Options, the number of shares which may be purchased upon exercise of such Options, the expiration date of such Options as of the date of this Agreement and the exercise price per Share of such Options. (ii) All of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company Subsidiaries are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and are owned by the Company, free and clear of any liens, claims, encumbrances, restrictions, preemptive rights or any other claims of any third party (“Liens”). Except for the capital stock of the Company Subsidiaries, the Company does not own, directly or indirectly, any capital stock or other ownership interest in any Person. (iii) As of the date of this Agreement, no bonds, debentures, notes or other indebtedness of the Company having the right to vote on any matters on which shareholders may vote (“Company Voting Debt”) are issued or outstanding. (iv) Other than the Options and the ESPP, there are no securities, options, warrants, calls, rights, commitments, agreements, arrangements or undertakings of any kind to which the Company or any Company Subsidiary is a party or by which any of them is bound obligating the Company or any Company Subsidiary to issue, deliver or sell, or cause to be issued, delivered or sold, additional shares of capital stock or other voting securities of the Company or any Company Subsidiary or obligating the Company or any Company Subsidiary to issue, grant, extend or enter into any such security, option, warrant, call, right, commitment, agreement, arrangement or undertaking. As of the date of this Agreement, there are no outstanding obligations of the Company or any Company Subsidiary to repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of capital stock of the Company or any Company Subsidiary.

  • Company Capital Structure In the case of the Company, the authorized capital stock of the Company consists of 500,000,000 shares of Company Common Stock and 50,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Company Preferred Stock”). As of the Measurement Date, (i) 228,209,888 shares of Company Common Stock (excluding treasury shares) were issued and outstanding (including 119,422 shares of Company Common Stock subject to outstanding Company Restricted Stock Awards), (ii) no shares of Company Common Stock were held by the Company in its treasury and (iii) no shares of Company Preferred Stock were issued and outstanding. All of the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock have been duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of preemptive rights. The Company has no shares of Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock reserved for issuance, except that, as of the Measurement Date, there were (a) 3,913,542 shares of Company Common Stock reserved for future issuance under the Company Stock Plans, (b) 867,802 shares of Company Common Stock subject to outstanding Company Option Awards, and such Company Option Awards have a weighted average exercise price of $21.03 per share, (c) 5,311,304 shares of Company Common Stock subject to outstanding Company RSU Awards, and (d) 5,494,388 shares of Company Common Stock subject to outstanding Company PSU Awards (assuming maximum performance and excluding those Company PSU Awards that pursuant to their terms may only be settled in cash). Each of the outstanding shares of capital stock or other securities of each of the Company’s Subsidiaries is duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and each of the outstanding shares of capital stock or other securities of each of the Company’s Significant Subsidiaries is owned beneficially and of record by the Company or by a direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company, free and clear of any Encumbrance (excluding such transfer restrictions of general applicability as may be provided under the Securities Act, the “blue sky” Laws of the various States of the United States or similar Law of other applicable jurisdictions). Except for the Company Stockholders Agreement, as of the date of this Agreement, there are no outstanding subscriptions, options, warrants, puts, call agreements, understandings, claims or other agreements, commitments or rights of any type relating to the issuance, sale, redemption or transfer by the Company of any equity securities of the Company or its Subsidiaries, nor are there outstanding any securities which are convertible into or exchangeable for any shares of capital stock of the Company or its Subsidiaries and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any obligation to issue any additional securities or to pay for or repurchase any securities of the Company or its Subsidiaries. The shares of Company Common Stock are registered under the Exchange Act. Since the Measurement Date and through the date of this Agreement, the Company has not (A) issued any shares of Company Common Stock (other than upon the exercise or settlement of Company Equity Awards outstanding as of the Measurement Date) or (B) granted any Company Equity Awards or similar awards. The Company does not have outstanding any bonds, debentures, notes or other obligations the holders of which have the right to vote (or convertible into or exercisable for securities having the right to vote) with the stockholders of the Company on any matter.

  • Reservation and Availability of Capital Stock (a) The Company covenants and agrees that it will cause to be reserved and kept available out of its authorized and unissued shares of Preferred Stock (and, following the occurrence of a Triggering Event, out of its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock and/or other securities), the number of shares of Preferred Stock (and, following the occurrence of a Triggering Event, Common Stock and/or other securities) that, as provided in this Agreement, including Section 11(a)(iii) hereof, will be sufficient to permit the exercise in full of all outstanding Rights. (b) So long as the shares of Preferred Stock (and, following the occurrence of a Triggering Event, Common Stock and/or other securities) issuable and deliverable upon the exercise of the Rights may be listed on any national securities exchange, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause, from and after such time as the Rights become exercisable (but only to the extent that it is reasonably likely that the Rights will be exercised), all shares reserved for such issuance to be listed on such exchange upon official notice of issuance upon such exercise. (c) The Company shall use its best efforts to (i) file, as soon as practicable following the earliest date after the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event on which the consideration to be delivered by the Company upon exercise of the Rights has been determined in accordance with Section 11(a)(iii) hereof, a registration statement under the Securities Act, with respect to the securities purchasable upon exercise of the Rights on an appropriate form, (ii) cause such registration statement to become effective as soon as practicable after such filing, and (iii) cause such registration statement to remain effective (with a prospectus at all times meeting the requirements of the Securities Act) until the earlier of (A) the date as of which the Rights are no longer exercisable for such securities and (B) the Expiration Date. The Company will also take such action as may be appropriate under, or to ensure compliance with, the securities or “blue sky” laws of the various states in connection with the exercisability of the Rights. The Company may temporarily suspend, for a period of time not to exceed ninety (90) days after the date referenced in clause (i) of the first sentence of this Section 9(c), the exercisability of the Rights in order to prepare and file such registration statement and permit it to become effective. Upon any such suspension, the Company shall issue a public announcement stating that the exercisability of the Rights has been temporarily suspended, and the Company shall issue a public announcement at such time as the suspension has been rescinded. In addition, if the Company shall determine that a registration statement is required following the Distribution Date, the Company may temporarily suspend the exercisability of the Rights until such time as a registration statement has been declared effective. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, the Rights shall not be exercisable in any jurisdiction if the requisite qualification in such jurisdiction shall not have been obtained, the exercise thereof shall not be permitted under applicable law, or a registration statement shall not have been declared effective. (d) The Company covenants and agrees that it will take all such action as may be necessary to ensure that all one one-thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock (and, following the occurrence of a Triggering Event, Common Stock and/or other securities) delivered upon exercise of Rights shall, at the time of delivery of such shares (subject to payment of the Purchase Price), be duly and validly authorized and issued and fully paid and non-assessable. (e) The Company covenants and agrees that it will pay when due and payable any and all federal and state transfer taxes and charges that may be payable in respect of the issuance or delivery of the Rights Certificates and of any certificates for a number of one one-thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock (or Common Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be) upon the exercise of Rights. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any transfer tax that may be payable in respect of any transfer or delivery of Rights Certificates to a Person other than, or the issuance or delivery of a number of one one-thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock (or Common Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be) in respect of a name other than, that of the registered holder of the Rights Certificates evidencing Rights surrendered for exercise or to issue or deliver any certificates for a number of one one-thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock (or Common Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be) in a name other than that of the registered holder upon the exercise of any Rights until such tax shall have been paid (any such tax being payable by the holder of such Rights Certificates at the time of surrender) or until it has been established to the Company’s and the Rights Agent’s satisfaction that no such tax is due.

  • Maintenance of Capital Accounts There shall be established for each Partner on the books of the Partnership as of the date such Partner becomes a Partner a capital account (each being a “Capital Account”). Each Capital Contribution by any Partner, if any, shall be credited to the Capital Account of such Partner on the date such Capital Contribution is made to the Partnership. In addition, each Partner’s Capital Account shall be (a) credited with (i) such Partner’s allocable share of Net Income of the Partnership and any item of income or gain (including unrealized gain to the extent allowable) that is specially allocated for Section 704(b) book purposes to such Partner pursuant to Section 5.4(e) or Section 6.2(b), and (ii) the amount of any Partnership liabilities that are assumed by the Partner or secured by any Partnership property distributed to the Partner, (b) debited with (i) the amount of distributions (and deemed distributions) to such Partner of cash or the fair market value of other property so distributed, (ii) such Partner’s allocable share of Net Loss of the Partnership and any item of deduction or loss (including unrealized loss to the extent allowable) that is specially allocated for Section 704(b) book purposes to such Partner pursuant to Section 6.2(b), and (iii) the amount of any liabilities of the Partner assumed by the Partnership or which are secured by any property contributed by the Partner to the Partnership and (c) otherwise maintained in accordance with the provisions of the Code and the United States Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder. Any other item which is required to be reflected in a Partner’s Capital Account under Section 704(b) of the Code and the United States Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder or otherwise under this Agreement shall be so reflected. The General Partner shall make such adjustments to Capital Accounts as it determines in its sole discretion to be appropriate to ensure allocations are made in accordance with a Partner’s interest in the Partnership. Interest shall not be payable on Capital Account balances. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the General Partner shall maintain the Capital Accounts of the Partners in accordance with the principles and requirements set forth in Section 704(b) of the Code and the United States Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, provided, however, for purposes of this Agreement, (i) each holder of a series of Class B Common Units that is also a holder of regular Common Units, another series of Class B Common and/or a series of Class C Common Units and (ii) each holder of a series of Class C Common Units that is also a holder of regular Common Units, another series of Class C Common Units and/or a series of Class B Common Units shall, in each case under clause (i) or clause (ii), be deemed to have a separate Capital Account for each series of Class B Common Units, for each series of Class C Common Units and for the regular Common Units held by such holder. The Capital Account balance of a Partner with respect to each Preferred Unit held by such Partner shall equal the Liquidation Preference per Preferred Unit as of the date such Preferred Unit is initially issued and shall be increased as set forth in Article XVI.