Available Options Are:
A. Become riskier over time, but its intrinsic value will be maximized.
B. Become less risky over time, and this will maximize its intrinsic value.
C. Accept too many low-risk projects and too few high-risk projects.
D. Become more risky and also have an increasing WACC. Its intrinsic value will not be maximized.
E. Continue as before, because there is no reason to expect its risk position or value to change over time as a result of its use of a single cost of capital.
Answer:
Option D. Become more risky and also have an increasing WACC. Its intrinsic value will not be maximized.
Step-by-step explanation:
The reason is that different projects require different level of funding. If we are not increasing Debt and Equity at the same proportion for funding all the projects then we are actually increasing our WACC which means that the acceptability of the projects will not be appropriate here. The risk profile of all individual projects also matter because we use Ke cost of equity to calculate the WACC, which is calculated using the CAPM formula. And Beta Asset is the risk of the individual project industry which is used in the CAPM formula. All this increases the WACC which shows that the risk profile of the company has grown upwards.
Furthermore, if the WACC is higher then the intrinsic value of the projects can not be maximized and that's the reason why most firms try to have optimal level of capital structure (Percentage of equity and debt that gives lowest WACC).
Hence the option D is correct.