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Titan Mining Corp. has 8.5 million shares of common stock and 135,000 bonds outstanding. The common stock is selling for $34 per share and the estimated cost of equity is 13.4%. The bonds, currently selling for 114% of par, are BB-rated with 10 years to maturity. Similar risk bonds are trading at a default spread of 2.06%. The yield on T-bonds is 4%. Titan Mining’s corporate tax rate is 35 percent. What is Titan’s weighted average cost of capital? Please do not use excel.
Market value of Equity = 8,500,000 shares * $34 per share= $289,000,000
Market value of bonds = 135,000 * 100 * 114% = $15,390,000
Total Market value = $289,000,000 + $15,390,000 = $304,390,000
Weight of Equity =We = Market value of Equity / Total Market value = $289,000,000 / $304,390,000 = 0.949943986 = 94.99%
Weight of Bongs = Wd = Market value of bonds / Total Market value = $15,390,000 / $304,390,000 = 0.05056014 = 5.01%
Yeild on bonds = rd = yeild on t bonds + default spread = 4% + 2.06% = 6.06%
Cost of equity = re = 13.4%
tax rate = t = 35%
Weighted Average Cost of Capital = [We * re] + [Wd * rd * (1-t)]
= [94.99% * 13.4%] + [5.01% * 6.06% * (1-35%)]
= 12.72866% + 0.214929%
= 12.943589%
Therefore, Weighted average cost of capital is 12.94%