1.
Calculate the aftertax cost of debt under each of the following
conditions. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Input
your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)
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2.
Delta Corporation has the following capital structure:
| Cost (aftertax) |
Weights | Weighted Cost |
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| Debt (Kd) | 9.1 | % | 40 | % | 3.64 | % | |||
| Preferred stock (Kp) | 10.6 | 10 | 1.06 | ||||||
| Common equity (Ke) (retained earnings) | 9.1 | 50 | 4.55 | ||||||
| Weighted average cost of capital (Ka) | 9.25 | % | |||||||
a. If the firm has $16 million in retained
earnings, at what size capital structure will the firm run out of
retained earnings? (Enter your answer in millions of
dollars (e.g., $10 million should be entered as "10").)
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b. The 9.1 percent cost of debt referred to
earlier applies only to the first $12 million of debt. After that
the cost of debt will go up. At what size capital structure will
there be a change in the cost of debt? (Enter your answer
in millions of dollars (e.g., $10 million should be entered as
"10").)
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