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Caddie Manufacturing has a target debt-equity ratio of .60. Its cost of equity is 11 percent, and its pretax cost of debt is 6 percent. If the tax rate is 22 percent, what is the company’s WACC? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
Ans 8.63
DEBT / EQUITY = | 0.60 |
DEBT = | 0.60 EQUITY |
DEBT = | 0.60* (1 - DEBT) |
DEBT = | 0.60 - 0.60 DEBT |
DEBT = | 0.60 / 1.60 |
DEBT = | 37.50% |
EQUITY = | 1 - DEBT |
1 - 37.50% | |
62.50% |
Investment | Tax Cost | After Tax Cost (Tax Cost * (1- tax)) | Average Cost | |
Debt | 37.50 | 6% | 4.68% | 1.76 |
Common Stock | 62.50 | 11.00% | 11.00% | 6.88 |
100.00 | Total Cost | 8.63 | ||