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Definition of Cost of capital
1. Noun. The opportunity cost of the funds employed as the result of an investment decision; the rate of return that a business could earn if it chose another investment with equivalent risk.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cost Of Capital
Literary usage of Cost of capital
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Making Things Better: Competing in Manufacturing (1993)
"Most estimates of US and Japanese capital costs still show American firms at a
substantial disadvantage—one study, for instance, reports US cost of capital ..."
2. Principles of Political Economy by Thomas Nixon Carver (1919)
"CHAPTER XXXVI THE cost of capital AND ITS PRICE Why capital is scarce. Seeing that
the productivity of capital, or its advantageous use, diminishes as the ..."
3. Principles of National Economy by Thomas Nixon Carver (1921)
"CHAPTER XXXIX THE cost of capital AND ITS RELATION TO INTEREST Why capital is
scarce. Seeing that the marginal productivity of capital, or the advantageous ..."
4. Principles of Economics: With Special Reference to American Conditions by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1905)
"... the cost of capital might be neglected, it would lead to a well-nigh incalculable
multiplication of durable commodities. Every city would be pierced by ..."
5. Reducing Capital Cost in Southern Africa by Martin Grandes, Nicolas Pinaud (2005)
"Post facto, SABMiller (as it was renamed) was able to lower its weighted average
cost of capital for the whole company. According to conversations with ..."
6. Government ownership of railways by Samuel Orace Dunn (1913)
"CHAPTER V cost of capital WE have seen in the preceding chapter that one of the
main arguments for government ownership is that the public could and ..."
7. Projected Costs of Generating Electricity: 2005 Update by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, International Energy Agency (2005)
"This observation has implications with respect to comparing the weighted average
cost of capital used in various analyses of cost of generating electricity ..."
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