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9 October, 09:37

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?

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  1. 9 October, 11:31
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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, rRF 6.00% Tax rate, T 40%

    Market risk premium, RPM 4.00% Current wd 0%

    Current beta, bU 1.15 Target wd 40%

    1.84%
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