Question

You were hired as a consultant to giambono company, whose target capital structure is 40% debt, 15% preferred, and 45% common equity. the after-tax cost of debt is 6.00%, the cost of preferred is 7.50%, and the cost of retained earnings is 13.00%. the firm will not be issuing any new stock. what is its wacc?

Answer 1

By definition, the Weighted Average Cost of Capital or WACC is the rate that an organization is expected to pay to all its security holders to finance its assets.

Mathematically this can be calculated by summation of the weighted average of the cost:

wacc = 0.4 * 0.06 + 0.15 * 0.075 + 0.45 * 0.13

wacc = 9.38%