Question

Healthy Snacks has a target capital structure of 60 percent common stock, 3 percent preferred stock, and 37 percent debt. Its cost of equity is 16.8 percent, the cost of preferred stock is 11.4 percent, and the pretax cost of debt is 8.3 percent. What is the company's WACC if the applicable tax rate is 34 percent?

Answer 1

Answer:

WACC = 12.45%

Explanation:

WACC= cost of equity * weight + cost of pref. equity * weight + cost of debt * weight * (1 - T)

WACC = 0.6 * 16.8 + 0,03 * 11.4 + 0,37 * 8.3 * (1 - 0,34)

WACC is the weighted average of the costs of the company, so it is necessary to multiply the weight of each source of capital (equity, preferred equity and debt) for its corresponding cost. Debt has a partiuclarity and is that it is before taxes so it becomes a tax shield for the company and taxes in fact reduce the cost of debt, for that reason we also multiply the cost of debt by  (1 - T)