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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? Dye Industries currently uses no debt,but its new CFO is considering changing the capital structure to 40.0% debt (w<sub>d</sub>) by issuing bonds and using the proceeds to repurchase and retire common shares so the percentage of common equity in the capital structure (w<sub>c</sub>) = 1 − w<sub>d</sub>.Given the data shown below,by how much would this recapitalization change the firm's cost of equity,i.e.,what is r<sub>L</sub> − r<sub>U</sub>? A) 1.66% B) 1.84% C) 2.02% D) 2.23% E) 2.45%


A) 1.66%
B) 1.84%
C) 2.02%
D) 2.23%
E) 2.45%

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