With a tax rate of 35%, Big Oil had a WAAC of 10.5%. Suppose Big Oil is

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With a tax rate of 35%, Big Oil had a WAAC of 10.5%. Suppose Big Oil is excused from paying taxes. How would its WACC change? Now suppose Big Oil makes a large stock issue and uses the proceeds to pay off all its debt. How would the cost of equity change?

Common stock beta...............0.85

Risk-free interest rate...............6%

Debt Value.......................385.70

Common stock................1,200.00

Debt interest rates...................9%

Cost of equity.......................12%

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: 978-0078034640

7th edition

Authors: Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Alan Marcus

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