Problem 16-12 Calculating WACC [LO1]
Blitz Industries has a debt-equity ratio of .9. Its WACC is 8.8 percent, and its cost of debt is 6.3 percent. The corporate tax rate is 25 percent. |
a. |
What is the company’s cost of equity capital? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
b. | What is the company’s unlevered cost of equity capital? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
c-1. | What would the cost of equity be if the debt-equity ratio were 2? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
c-2. | What would the cost of equity be if the debt-equity ratio were 1.0? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
c-3. | What would the cost of equity be if the debt-equity ratio were zero? |
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