Irving Corp. has no debt but can borrow at 6.4 percent. The firms WACC is currently 10.9

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Irving Corp. has no debt but can borrow at 6.4 percent. The firm’s WACC is currently 10.9 percent, and there is no corporate tax.
a. What is the company’s cost of equity?
b.
If the firm converts to 30 percent debt, what will its cost of equity be?
c. If the firm converts to 60 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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Essentials of Corporate Finance

ISBN: 978-1260013955

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Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Bradford Jordan

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