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WEIGHTED AVERAGE COST OF CAPITAL

If Wild Widgets, Inc., (WWI) were an all-equity firm, it would have a beta of 0.9.WWI has a target debt-to-equity ratio of 0.50. The expected return on the market portfolio is 16 percent, and Treasury bills currently yield 8 percent per annum. WWI one-year,$1,000 par value bonds carry a 7 percent annual coupon and are currently selling for $972.73. The yield on WWI's longer term debt is equal to the yield on its one-year bonds. The corporate tax rate is 34 percent.

1. What is WWI's cost of debt?
2. What is WWI's cost of equity?
3. What is WWI's weighted average cost of capital?

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1. What is WWI's cost of debt?

We need to calculate how much the bonds have been issued by using the formula as follows: -
where B is the issued price
C is the coupon payment
r is the discount or yield rate
n is the period

Then, we ...

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