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Question: Your firm is trying to decide whether to buy an e-commerce software company. The company has $100,000 in total capital assets: $60,000 in equity and $40,000 in debt. The cost of the company’s equity is 10%, while the cost of the company's debt is 5%. The corporate tax rate is 21%. What is the WACC of the company?

  1. 0.0845
  2. 0.0800
  3. 0.0823
  4. 0.0891
  5. 0.0758
  6. 0.0674
  7. 0.0652
  8. 0.0700
  9. 0.0921
  10. 0.0789

Our answer: E. 0.0758 Source quote machine-checked (exact quote)

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Corporate weighted average cost of capital (WACC) calculation problem

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Wikipedia, "Weighted average cost of capital"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_average_cost_of_capital

“The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is the rate that a company is expected to pay on average to all its security holders to finance its assets.”

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