Project Rising Sun Illustrative Weighted Average Cost of Capital Calculations—Rising Sun Illustrative WACC Calculation Beta Determination ($ in millions) Equity Risk Premium Total Unlevered Beta(7) Low High Historical Predicted Market Debt Historical Predicted 5.00 %(1) 7.08 %(2) Adjusted Levered Value of and Pfd. Leverage Ratios Adjusted Levered Equity Risk Premium (Rm - Rf) Multiply by: Rising Sun Levered Beta 0.908 0.908 Company Beta(4) Beta(5) Equity(6) Stock D/E D/(D+E) Beta Beta Adjusted Equity Risk Premium 4.54 % 6.43 % Rising Sun 0.960 1.147 $4,946 $3,898 78.8 % 44.1 % 0.652 0.779 Add: Risk-Free Rate of Return (Rf) 4.75 % 4.75 % Size Premium 0.85 % 0.85 % Large Cap Cost of Equity—Rising Sun 10.14 % 12.03 % Las Vegas Sands 1.750 1.745 $32,800 $4,030 12.3 % 10.9 % 1.630 1.625 Multiply by: Comps Average E/(D+E) 69.7 % 69.7 % MGM Mirage Inc. 1.280 1.525 21,236 13,127 61.8 38.2 0.934 1.112 Cost of Equity Portion 7.07 % 8.38 % Harrah’s Ent. 0.970 1.116 16,815 10,719 63.7 38.9 0.702 0.807 7.00 % 7.00 % Wynn Resorts 1.250 1.420 11,726 2,155 18.4 15.5 1.126 1.279 Cost of Debt (Kd)—Rising Sun After-Tax Cost of Debt 4.34 % 4.34 % Boyd Gaming. 1.180 1.262 4,338 2,858 65.9 39.7 0.846 0.904 Multiply by: Comps Average D/(D+E) 30.3 % 30.3 % Penn National 0.960 1.142 4,171 3,002 72.0 41.9 0.670 0.798 Cost of Debt Portion 1.32 % 1.32 % Mid Cap WACC—Rising Sun 8.38 % 9.70 % Ameristar Casinos 1.320 1.292 1,941 859 44.2 30.7 1.043 1.021 Pinnacle Ent. 1.480 1.525 1,762 637 36.2 26.6 1.216 1.253 Key Assumptions 5.00–7.08%(1)(2) Rising Sun Unlevered Beta (Average of Historical and Predicted) 0.715 Equity Risk Premium (Rm - Rf) (3) 4.75 Comps Avg. Debt/Equity Ratio (Translates to Debt/Total Capital Ratio of 30.3%) 43.5% Risk-Free Rate of Return (Rf) Assumed Cost of Debt (Kd) 7.00 Rising Sun Levered Beta(8) 0.908 Assumed Tax Rate for Rising Sun 38.0 Assumed Tax Rate for Comp. Companies 40.0 (1) Reflects Bear Stearns’ judgmental synthesis of various academic views and financial and market perspectives, including (a) the current supply-side model expected equity risk premium (i.e., 6.28%) and the current long-term historical geometric average equity risk premium (i.e., 5.05%) per Ibbotson Associates’ Stock, Bonds, Bills and Inflation, Valuation Edition 2006 Yearbook, (b) the recommended prospective long-term arithmetic average equity risk premium (i.e., 4.50%–5.00%) per Dimson, Marsh and Staunton’s “The Worldwide Equity Premium: A Smaller Puzzle” and Triumph of the Optimists, (c) the recommended expected arithmetic equity risk premium (i.e., 3.50%–7.00%, as adjusted) per Brealey, Myers and Allen’s Principles of Corporate Finance (Eighth Edition), (d) the recommended expected arithmetic equity risk premium (i.e., 5.00%, with a range of 3.50%–6.00%) per Brigham and Ehrhardt’s Financial Management: Theory and Practice (Eleventh Edition) and (e) a survey of the current practices of our competitors as well as other academic and practitioner points of view. (2) Represents current long-term historical arithmetic average equity risk premium per Ibbotson Associates’ Stock, Bonds, Bills and Inflation, Valuation Edition 2006 Yearbook. (3) Source: Bloomberg. Equal to the interpolated yield on the 20-year US Treasury bond as of February 21, 2007. (4) Source: Based on Bloomberg adjusted beta for the past two years on a weekly basis as of February 16 2007. (5) Source: Barra betas as of January 2007. (6) Equity values based on closing prices as of February 21, 2007. (7) Unlevered Beta = Levered Beta/[ 1 + ((D/E) * (1-T))]. (8) Levered Beta = Unlevered Beta * [ 1 + ((D/E) * (1-T))]. (9) Calculated in the same manner as that of Rising Sun using the midpoint of the levered and unlevered Historical Adjusted Beta and Predicted Beta and the midpoint of the Equity Risk Premium. CONFIDENTIAL 37 |