Principles of Corporate Finance (Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
Principles of Corporate Finance (Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781259144387
Author: Richard A Brealey, Stewart C Myers, Franklin Allen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 17, Problem 8PS
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To determine: The new cost of equity as per MM’s proposition 2 and the company C’s after-tax weighted average cost of capital.

Cost of equity is the rate of return that a company wants to pay to its shareholders in order to compensate for the risk undertaken by them by investing their capital.

Weighted average cost of capital is the appropriate rate at which the firm has to pay to all its security holders to finance its assets.

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