Company JKL Limited has 10 million stocks outstanding. The shares are trading at 60$ per share. It also has 400 bonds outstanding – each valued at 500.000$. The marginal tax-rate is at 30%. For the expected return of the shareholders is about 14% and the interest rate for the bonds is at 8%. What is JKL’s after-tax WACC?
Formula | ||||
WACC = % of Financing in Common Stock X Cost of common Stock + % of Financing in debt X after tax cost of Debt | ||||
WACC at tax rate 30% | ||||
$ | Weight | Cost (%) | WACC | |
Common Equity (10,000,000X$60) | 60,00,00,000 | 75.00% | 14.00% | 0.1050 |
Debt (400 bonds x $500,000) | 20,00,00,000 | 25.00% | 5.60% | 0.0140 |
Total | 80,00,00,000 | 0.1190 | ||
JKL's after -tax WACC | 11.90% | |||
Note: | ||||
Cost of debt = 8% *(1-0.3) = 5.60% | ||||
Each bond value considered as $500,000 |
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