A company is financed entirely by equity and has a beta of 1.0. Its cost of equity is 14%. The company decides to repurchase (buy back) half of its shares and raise an equal value of debt. The company plans to maintain this capital structure thereafter. The debt is risk-free and carries an interest rate of 7%. The company is subject to an income tax rate

A company is financed entirely by equity and has a beta of 1.0. Its cost of equity is 14%. The company decides to repurchase (buy back) half of its shares and raise an equal value of debt. The company plans to maintain this capital structure thereafter. The debt is risk-free and carries an interest rate of 7%. The company is subject to an income tax rate

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You have the following data for your company. Market Value of Equity: $520 Book Value of Debt: $130 Required rate of return on equity: 12% Required rate of return on debt (pre-tax): 7% Corporate tax rate: 25% The company's debt is assumed to be is reasonably safe, so the book value of debt is a reasonably approximation for the market value of debt. What is the weighted average cost of capital for this company?
Assume that a company borrows at a cost of 0.08. Its tax rate is 0.35. What is the minimum after-tax cost of capital for a certain cash flow if a. 100 percent debt is used? b. 100 percent common stock? (assume that the stockholders will accept 0.08)
Company X has debt and equity as sources of funds. Company X has market value of debtas $150,000 and book value of debt as $80,000. The company has book value of equity as$100,000 and market value of equity as $125,000. The cost of debt is 8.25% and cost ofequity is 9.57%. the tax rate is 38%. What is the Weighted Average Cost of Capital(WACC)?a. 7.59%b. 7.78%c. 7.14%d. 7.68%
Assume that your company is trying to determine its optimal capital structure, which consists only of debt and common stock. To estimate the cost of debt, the company has produced the following table: 09.86% 9.56% Percent Financed With Debt 10.16% 8.96% 9.26% 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 Percent Financed With Equity 0.90 0.80 0.70 0.60 0.50 Debt/Equity Ratio Now assume that the company's tax rate is 40 percent, that the company uses the CAPM to estimate its cost of common equity, Ks, that the risk-free rate is 5 percent and the market risk premium is 6 percent. Finally assume that if it has no debt its WACC would be equal to its cost of equity which would be equal to 11 percent (you should now be able to determine its "unlevered beta," bu). 0.10/0.90 0.11 0.20/0.80 0.25 Given this information, determine the firm's cost of capital if it finances with 40 percent debt and 60 percent equity. 0.30/0.70=0.43 0.40/0.600.67 0.50/0.50 = 1.00 Bond Rating AA A A BB B Before-Tax Cost of Debt 7.0% 7.2%…
You are given the financial information for the Unic Company: Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) = $126.58 Corporate tax rate (TC) = 0.21 Debt (D) = $500 Unlevered cost of capital (RU) = 0.20 The cost of debt capital is 10 percent. Question: Determine the value of Unic Company equity? Determine the cost of equity capital for Unic Company? Determine the WACC for Unic Company?
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A company finances its operations and growth opportunities, using common equity and debt. The debt-to-equity ratio of the CI Corp. is 0.2. If its cost of equity is 11%, and its pretax cost of debt is 4%, what comes closest to the company's WACC? The tax rate is 25%. 0000 14% 10% 6% 8.5%
A company's capital structure consists of 25% debt and 75% common equity. The company has a 20% tax rate, and the cost of equity is 146. What is this company's difference in weighted average cost of capital (WACC) if the cost of debt is 6% at market value and 5% at book value and the cost of equity is 12 %? a. 0.19% b. 0.25% (b is correct, I just don't understand how.)c. 10% d. 11%
A company finances its operations and growth opportunities, using common equity and debt. The debt-to-equity ratio of the CI Corp. is 0.3. If its cost of equity is 14%, and its pretax cost of debt is 5%, what comes closest to the company’s WACC? The tax rate is 21%. 6.7% 4.5% 7.1% 6.3% 5.8% The answer is not 7.1%
The company’s capital structure is as follows: Debt Weight 25%, Preferred Stock Weight 25%, Common equity Weight 50%. The cost of debt is 12%, the cost of preferred stock is 15% and the cost of common equity is 0.216. Calculate the company’s weighted average cost of capital. Select one: a. All the given choices are not correct b. 0.0780 c. 0.1380 d. 0.1455 e. 0.1755
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