Exam 13: Capital Structure and Leverage

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Dye Industries currently uses no debt, but its new CFO is considering changing the capital structure to 40.0% debt (wd) by issuing bonds and using the proceeds to repurchase and retire common shares so the percentage of common equity in the capital structure (wc) = 1 ? wd. Given the data shown below, by how much would this recapitalization change the firm's cost of equity, i.e., what is rL ? rU? Risk-free rate, 6.00\% Tax rate, 40\% Market risk premium, 4.00\% Current 0\% Current beta, 1.15 Target 40\%

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