Question

New attempt is in progress. Some of the new entries may impact the last attempt grading.Your answer is incorrect. Maloney's, Inc. has found that its cost of common equity capital is 17 percent and its cost of debt capital is 6 percent. The firm is financed with $3,000,000 of common shares (market value) and $2,000,000 of debt. What is the after-tax weighted average cost of capital for Maloney's, if it is subject to a 40 percent marginal tax rate

Answer 1

The WACC is 11.64%

Step-by-step explanation:

The weighted average cost of capital or WACC is the cost to firm of raising its total capital based on its capital structure. The capital structure of the firm can contain debt, preferred stock and common stock. The WACC take the weight of each component as a proportion of total value of assets and multiply it by the rate of return or cost of each component.

WACC = wD * rD * (1-tax rate) + wE *rE

Where,

• wD and wE represent the weights of debt and equity as a proportion of total assets
• rD and rE are the cost of debt and cost of equity
• We multiply rD by (-tax rate) because we take after tax cost of debt for WACC calculation

Weight of debt = 2000000 / (2000000 + 3000000) = 2/5 or 0.4

Weight of equity is = 1 - 0.4 = 0.6

WACC = 0.4 * 0.06 * (1-0.4) + 0.6 * 0.17

WACC = 0.1164 or 11.64%