Edwards Construction currently has debt outstanding with a market value of $75,000. The company has a WACC of 10 percent. Tax rate is 20%. The company just released its EBIT of $8,750 for the preceding financial year (t = 0). What is the debt-to-value ratio if the company’s growth rate is 7 percent? Group of answer choices 0.23 0.3 0.21 0.7

Edwards Construction currently has debt outstanding with a market value of $75,000. The company has a WACC of 9 percent and has EBIT of $8,750 in the next year. The tax rate is 20%. What is the debt-to-value ratio if the EBIT’s growth rate is 5%?   a. 42.86% b. 39.33% c. 96.42% d. 32.45%

Avicorp has a $12.3 million debt issue outstanding, with a 6.1% coupon rate. The debt has semi-annual coupons, the next coupon is due in six months, and the debt matures in five years. It is currently priced at 96% of par value. a. What is Avicorp's pre-tax cost of debt? Note: Compute the effective annual return. b. If Avicorp faces a 40% tax rate, what is its after-tax cost of debt? Note: Assume that the firm will always be able to utilize its full interest tax shield.

Johnson Tire Distributors has debt with both a face and a market value of $90,000,000. This debt has a coupon rate of 7 percent and pays interest annually. The expected earnings before interest and taxes is a constant $50,000,000 in perpetuity. The company's tax rate is 25 percent, and the unlevered cost of capital is 25 percent. What is the firm's cost of equity? Write your answer as a percent rounded to two digits, but don't include the % sign (i.e. enter 12.63, not 0.1263). HINT: You need to use both M&M propositions. Numeric Response

Now (use the following information) suppose that: The cost of debt (ra) is 3.875% (before tax), • Flotation costs (F) = 7% of issue price, The debt is trading at $1,025.00, There are 7,250 bonds outstanding, • The tax rate is .35, The LAST dividend paid yesterday (Do) = $4.56, The expected constant growth rate (g) = 2.75%, Beta = 1.55, TRF = 1.14%, = 4.5%, (market risk premium) The firm has 250,000 shares of common stock outstanding, Common stock shares are trading at $47.32/share (Po). RPm Given the above information, what is the Market value of the firm's debt? $. Given the above information, what is the Market value of the firm's equity? $. Now calculate the weight of debt for the firm (Wa). You will use this to calculate the WACC. Now calculate the weight of equity for the firm (Wee). You will use this to calculate the WACC. What is the cost of existing common equity (retained earnings)? (Briefly describe your approach/method as well as your answer) What is the cost of NEW common…

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The company you work for wants you to estimate the company’s WACC; but before you do so, you need to estimate the cost of debt and equity. You have obtained the following info. 1) the firms non-callable bonds mature in 20 years, have an 8.00% annual coupon, a par value of $1,000 and a market price of $1,225.00. 2) the company’s tax rate is 40%. 3)the risk-free rate is 4.50%, the market risk premium is 5.50%, and the stocks beta is 1.20. 4) the target capital structure consists of 35% debt and the balance is common equity. The firm uses the CAPM to estimate the cost of equity, and it does not expect to issue any common stock. WHAT is the WACC?