You have taken over as CFO for United Widgets Inc. (UWI). Your first task at UWI is
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You have taken over as CFO for United Widgets Inc. (UWI). Your first task at UWI is to calculate a cost of capital. UWI is 30% debt financed, and the debt has a yield-to-maturity of 6%. UWI faces a 30% marginal tax rate. Part of UWI’s production is in their Mexican plant. Your analyst has run the following regression for you:
RUWI_Stock = 0.02 + .6(RUS_Market – R¬Risk_Free) - .3(RPeso)
If you estimate a 5% expected depreciation in the peso over the next year, what cost of capital would you estimate for UWI?
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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
ISBN: 978-0071051606
8th Canadian Edition
Authors: Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield
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