The Wishing Well hotel chain has a short-term bank loan with a book value of $40 million and has issued bonds with a book value of $200 million. The bookvalue of the firm's equity (net worth) is equal to $400 million. The interest rate thefirm pays on the bank debt equals 8% and the yield on the bonds equals10%. Wishing Well has 10 million shares outstanding at a price of $90 per share. The current required return on equity is 18%. If we assume that themarginal tax rate for Wishing Well equals 35 %, what is Wishing Well's WACC?Motivate your approach and show your calculations.

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ABC Trucking's balance sheet shows a total of noncallable $30 million long-term debt with a coupon rate of 6.80% and a yield to maturity of 8.10%. This debt currently has a market value of $48 million. The balance sheet also shows that the company has 10 million shares of common stock, and the book value of the common equity is $213.00 million. The current stock price is $23.80 per share; stockholders' required return, rs, is 15.05%; and the firm's tax rate is 36.00%. The CFO thinks the WACC should be based on market value weights, but the president thinks book weights are more appropriate. What is the difference between the WACCs using market value and the book value?Work with at least 4 decimals and round your final answer to two decimal places. For example, if your answer is $345.6671 round as 345.67 and if your answer is .05718 or 5.7182% round as 5.72. Group of answer choices –0.46% –0.49% –0.44% –0.34% –0.36%
XYZ Banks Inc. is a short-term lender. XYZ is all equity financed. XYZ has 20 million shares outstanding which trade for P7 per share. XYZ's shareholders require a return of 9%. Cash-Mart Financial is also a short-term lender. It's shares are trading for P15 per share. Cash-Mart has 10 million shares outstanding. Cash-Mart's corporate bonds are rated BB and are trading for 87.5% of face value to yield 7%. The face value of Cash-Mart's debt is P100 million. What is the required return of Cash-Mart's shareholders? (Assume that the tax rate is 0%.)
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The total book value of WTC's equity is $13 million, and book value per share is $26. The stock has a market-to-book ratio of 1.5, and the cost of equity is 15%. The firm's bonds have a face value of $9 million and sell at a price of 110% of face value. The yield to maturity on the bonds is 10%, and the firm's tax rate is 21%. What is the company's WACC? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)
Northern Wood Products is an all-equity firm with 20,700 shares of stock outstanding and a total market value of $365,000. Based on its current capital structure, the firm is expected to have earnings before interest and taxes of $32,500 if the economy is normal, $19,200 if the economy is in a recession, and $45,800 if the economy booms. Ignore taxes. Management is considering issuing $91,900 of debt with an interest rate of 7 percent. If the firm issues the debt, the proceeds will be used to repurchase stock. What will the earnings per share be if the debt is issued and the economy is in a recession?
Gentrix Inc. has two major sources of financing—common stock and long-term debt. They currently have 1,000,000 shares of stock outstanding, which are trading at a price of $20 per share. Two years ago, they issued $5,000,000 of 20-year debt to the general public at par value. The debt pays an annual coupon of 7%. The coupon is paid annually. Given their current capital structure, Gentrix has estimated that their cost of equity is 15%. Gentrix faces a marginal tax rate of 40%. It has been exactly two years since Gentrix issued their debt, and interest rates have increased. If the long-term debt is currently having a yield to maturity of 9%, what is the current value of the outstanding debt? Is it selling at a premium or discount to par value? (Remember that coupon payments of 7% are made annually rather than the semiannually.) Based on Gentrix’s current capital structure, what is the firm’s weighted average cost of capital? Assume that Gentrix currently has a capital structure that is…
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Big Door Company has 8.7 million shares outstanding, which are currently trading for about $13 per share and have a levered equity beta of 1.2. Big Door has 19,900 outstanding bonds, with a 4% coupon rate, payable semi-annually and due in 10 years. The bonds are rated BBB. Currently the credit spread for BBB is 178 basis points over equivalent-maturity Government of Canada debt. The current yield on 10-year Canada bonds is 5%, compounded semi-annually. The risk-free interest rate is 2%, and the market risk premium is 6.6%. The company has a 35% tax rate. (Do not round intermediate calculations.) a. Calculate Big Door's WACC. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) WACC b. Calculate Big Door's unlevered beta, using the following formula: (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Pleveret Pdebtx (1–Tc)×D/E BU 1+(1–Tc)×D/E es Unlevered beta c. If Big Door was 50% debt-financed, what would be its WACC? Assume that the beta of its debt is unchanged by the capital structure change. (Round…
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