Chandeliers Corp. has no debt but can borrow at 6.1 percent. The firms WACC is currently 9.5

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Chandeliers Corp. has no debt but can borrow at 6.1 percent. The firm’s WACC is currently 9.5 percent, and the tax rate is 35 percent.

a. What is the company’s cost of equity?

b. If the firm converts to 25 percent debt, what will its cost of equity be?

c If the firm converts to 50 percent debt, what will its cost of equity be?

d What is the company’s WACC in part (b)? In part (c)?

Cost Of Equity
The cost of equity is the return a company requires to decide if an investment meets capital return requirements. Firms often use it as a capital budgeting threshold for the required rate of return. A firm's cost of equity represents the...
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Fundamentals of corporate finance

ISBN: 978-0078034633

10th edition

Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Bradford Jordan

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