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Cost of debt, cost of equity, mixes of both; recommendation

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Please help to
(1) evaluate the companies cost of debt and cost of equity from a few different perspectives,
(2) evaluate different mixes of debt and equity,
(3) recommend an amount of debt to equity mix that you think is best for the company and explain why,
(4) recommend the weighted average cost of capital for the company that should be used to evaluate investment decisions and explain why.
Some other issues may also come up.

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