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Sixx AM Manufacturing has a target debt—equity ratio of 0.52. Its cost of equity is 16 percent, and its cost of debt is 11 percent. If the tax rate is 34 percent, what is the company's WACC?
Weight | Cost | Weighted Cost | ||||
Debt | 0.3421 | 7.26% | 2.48% | |||
Equity | 0.6579 | 16% | 10.53% | |||
Total | 13.01% | |||||
So, WACC is 13.01% | ||||||
Working: | ||||||
After tax cost of debt | = | Before tax cost of debt*(1-Tax rate) | ||||
= | 11%*(1-0.34) | |||||
= | 7.26% | |||||
Debt | 0.52 | |||||
Equity | 1.00 | |||||
Total | 1.52 | |||||
So, weight of: | ||||||
Debt | 0.52 | / | 1.52 | = | 0.3421 | |
Equity | 1.00 | / | 1.52 | = | 0.6579 | |
Total | 1.0000 | |||||