Question

32,500 shares of common stock outstanding at a price per share of $80 and a rate of return of 12.95 percent. The firm has 7,350 shares of 7.90 percent preferred stock outstanding at a price of $95.50 per share. The preferred stock has a par value of $100. The outstanding debt has a total face value of $407,000 and currently sells for 111.5 percent of face. The yield to maturity on the debt is 8.11 percent and the bonds have a coupon rate of 5.6 percent. What is the firm's weighted average cost of capital if the tax rate is 40 percent?

Answer 1

WACC = 11.1%

Step-by-step explanation:

The weighted Average cost of Capital is the average cost of capital for the different sources of long-term capital available to a firm weighted according to the proportion each source of finance bears to the total capital in the pool.

Market of securities

Common stock = $80 × 32,500= 2,600,000.

Preferred stock = $95.50 × 7,350= 701,925.00

Bond = 407,000/100 × 111.5= 453,805.00

Cost of each capital type

Common stock= 12.95

Preferred stock = (7.90%× 100)/95.50= 8.3%

Bond= 8.11%× (1-0.4)=4.87%

WACC

Type Market Value Cost Market value cost

Common stock 2,600,000. 12.95% 336,700.00

Preferred 701,925.00 8.3% 58,065.00

Bond 453,805.00 4.87% 22,100.30

Total 3,755,730.00 416,865.30

WACC = (416,865.30 / 3,755,730.00) × 100

= 11.1%

WACC = 11.1%