Net Operating Income or NOI is equal to yearly gross income less operating expenses.
Net operating income
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Net Operating Income or NOI is
equal to yearly gross income less operating expenses. Gross income includes all
income earned by the company. Operating expenses are costs incurred during the
operation and maintenance of the company. Net operating income or NOI is used
in two very important ratios. It is an essential ingredient in the
Capitalization Rate (Cap Rate) calculation. We would estimate the value of
company like this
Estimated
Value = Net Operating Income /Capitalization Rate Another important ratio that is
used is the Debt Coverage Ratio or DCR. The NOI is a key ingredient in this
important ratio also. Lenders and investors use the debt coverage ratio to
measure a company’s ability to pay its’ operating expenses. A debt coverage
ratio of 1 is break even. From a bank’s perspective and an investor’s
perspective, the larger the debt coverage ratio is better. Debt coverage ratio
is calculated like this
Debt
Coverage Ratio = Net Operating Income / Debt Service Debt service is the total of all
interest and principal paid in a given year. The Net Operating Income is an
important ingredient in several ratios which include the Capitalization Rate,
Net Income Multiplier and the Debt Service Coverage Ratio. According to net
operating income approach in the capital structure, the overall capitalization
rate and the cost of debt remain constant for all degrees of financial
leverage. As
we have seen under net income approach the average cost of capital is measured
as under

Ra and Rd
are constant for all degrees of leverage. Given this, the cost of equity can be
ascertained as under:

The critical assumption of this
approach is that the market capitalizes the company as a whole at a discount
rate which is independent of the company’s debt-equity ratio. As a result, the
division between debt and equity is considered irrelevant. Any increase in the
use of debt capital which is cheaper and it is offset by an increase in the
equity capitalization rate. This is obvious because the equity investors seek
higher return as they are exposed to greater risk which in turn arises from the
increase in the financial leverage. This net operating income
approach has been propounded by David Durand. He concluded that the market
value of a company depends on its net operating income and business risk. The changes in the degree of
leverage employed by a company cannot change these underlying factors. They
merely change the distribution of income and risk between debt capital and
equity capital without affecting the total income and risk which influence the
market value of the company.
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