PRIN.OF CORPORATE FINANCE
PRIN.OF CORPORATE FINANCE
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Author: BREALEY
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Chapter 17, Problem 20PS

After-tax WACC* Gaucho Services starts life with all-equity financing and a cost of equity of 14%. Suppose it refinances to the following market-value capital structure:

Chapter 17, Problem 20PS, After-tax WACC Gaucho Services starts life with all-equity financing and a cost of equity of 14%.

  1. a. Use MM’s proposition 2 to calculate the new cost of equity. Gaucho pays taxes at a marginal rate of Tc = 40%.
  2. b. Calculate Gaucho’s after-tax weighted-average cost of capital.
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