Answer:
Cost of capital = 12.40%
Explanation:
given data
cost of equity = 15.4 percent
pretax cost of debt = 8.9 percent
debt-equity ratio = 0.46
tax rate = 34 percent
to find out
What is the cost of capital for this project
solution
first we get Equity multiplier that is express as
Equity multiplier = 1 + debt-equity ratio ..................1
put here value
Equity multiplier = 1 + 0.46
Equity multiplier = 1.46
and
Weight of equity will be
Weight of equity = ....................2
put here value
Weight of equity =
Weight of equity = 0.6849
and
Weight of Debt will be here
Weight of Debt = 1 - weight of equity ...........................3
put here value
Weight of Debt = 1 - 0.6849
Weight of Debt = 0.3151
so
Cost of capital will be here as
Cost of capital = Weight of Debt × pretax cost of debt × (1- tax rate ) + cost of equity × Weight of equity .....................4
put here value we get
Cost of capital = 0.3151 × 8.9% × (1 - 0.34) + 15.4% × 0.6849
Cost of capital = 12.40%