Company Y has a target debt ratio of 55%. Currently its debt ratio is 60% and it expects to revert to the target ratio in the near future. The company has a market cost of equity of 20%. While it has no bonds, it has interest payments of R1 000 000 on liabilities of R10 000 000. Assume the tax rate is 27%. What is the WACC for the company? a. 6.36% b. 14.05% c. 13.02% d. 9.10%

ICU Window, Inc., is trying to determine its cost of debt. The firm has a debt issue outstanding with 9 years to maturity that is quoted at 107 percent of face value. The issue makes semiannual payments and has an embedded cost of 6.6 percent annually.  What is the company's pretax cost of debt? If the tax rate is 24 percent, what is the aftertax cost of debt? Pretax cost of debt: __________% Aftertax cost of debt: __________%

Harmony Sego has a tax rate of 21%, the interest rate on debt is 10%, and the WACC is 15%. If the debt ratio is 60% (i.e., the weight on debt), what is the expected rate of return to equity holders? O 12.50% O 22.50% O 25.65% O 21.25%

Suppose Essen Corp has the following weights and costs. What is the WACC if the company has a 21% tax rate? Component Common equity Debt (before tax) R 11.5% 0.8 0.2 7.5% 10.39% ()8.71% ()6.25% 9.50% 10.70% Page 29 of 30 Previous Page Next Page

1. Soda Fizz has debt outstanding that has a market value of $3 million. The company's stock has a book value of $2 million and a market value of $6 million. What are the weights in SodaFizz's capital structure? 2. The yield to maturity on Soda Fizz's debt is 7.2%. If the company's marginal tax rate is 21%, what is Soda Fizz's effective cost of debt? 3. SodaFizz paid a dividend of $2 per share last year; its dividend has been growing at a rate of 2% per year, and that growth rate is expected to continue into the future. The stock of SodaFizz is currently trading at $19.50 per share. According to the constant dividend growth model, what is the cost of equity capital for Soda Fizz? 5. Given the answers to Problems 1, 2, and 3, what is SodaFizz's WACC when the constant dividend growth model is used to calculate its equity cost of capital?

Viserion, Incorporated, is trying to determine its cost of debt. The firm has a debt issue outstanding with 28 years to maturity that is quoted at 106 percent of face value. The issue makes semiannual payments and has an embedded cost of 6 percent annually.    What is the company's pretax cost of debt?  multiple choice 1 5.57% 6.69% 4.24% 6.13% 5.02%     If the tax rate is 24 percent, what is the aftertax cost of debt? multiple choice 2 4.24% 3.81% 4.66% 5.93% 5.57%

A company has debt, equity share and overdraft financing. The overdraft is used to finance the day-to-day activities of the company when necessary. The after-tax cost of debt is 12%, the cost of equity is 20% and the after-tax cost of the overdraft is 18%. The market value of debt is R1 000 000, the market value of equity is R2 000 000 and the market value of the overdraft is R500 000. Calculate the company’s weighted average cost of capital (rounded to two decimal places). a. 18.33% b. 17.33% c. 18.43% d. 19.33% e. 17.43%

A company currently has a WACC of 10.6 percent and no debt. The tax rate is 21 percent. a. What is the company’s current cost of equity? b. If the firm converts to 40 percent debt with a cost of 6%, what will its cost of equity be? And the WACC? c. If the firm converts to 60 percent debt with a cost of 6% , what will its cost of equity be? And the WACC? d. What can you conclude from the values of the cost of equity and WACC obtained in b. and c. Please show excel formulas

A company has £350 million of long-term debt in issue paying interest at a rate of 4%, and plans to maintain this level of debt going forward. The marginal tax rate faced by the firm is 25%. Assuming that the company is sufficiently profitable, the present value of the tax shield on interest expense is: a. £84.135m b. £3.365m c. £3.5md. £87.5m

A firm had a debt ratio of 0.85.  The pretax cost of debt is 8% and the reqiured return on asset is 15.5%. What is the cost of equity if we factorin the firms tax rate of 24%? A) 19.53 B) 18.92 C) 21.57 D) 20.35 E) 20.96