Healthy Body Hospital has a target capital structure of 35 percent debt and 65 percent equity. Its cost of equity estimate is 13 percent, and its cost of tax-exempt debt estimate is 7.5 percent. What is the hospital’s corporate cost of capital?

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Healthy Body Hospital has a target capital structure of 35 percent debt and 65 percent equity. Its cost of equity estimate is 13 percent, and its cost of tax-exempt debt estimate is 7.5 percent. What is the hospital’s corporate cost of capital?

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The cost of capital for a company, or in other words, the minimum return that a company must earn on its investments in order to meet the expectations of its investors and stakeholders. The WACC takes into account the cost of both debt and equity financing and gives a weighted average based on the proportion of each type of financing that the company uses.

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