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Alaska Air Group, Inc., ( NYSE: ALK ) , had a closing stock price on 1 1 / 2 5 / 2 0 1 9

Alaska Air Group, Inc., (NYSE: ALK), had a closing stock price on 11/25/2019 of $68.79.
On its most recent balance sheet, it has $3,751 million in shareholders equity, 123.17
million shares outstanding, $486 million in current portion of long-term debt, and
$1,617 million in long-term debt. Alaskas beta is 0.82(regression using 3 years of
monthly returns) and its marginal tax rate is 21%. Alaskas credit rating was downgraded
to BBB- after the Virgin America acquisition. The effective yield on the Bank of America
Merrill Lynch U.S. Corporate BBB Index was 3.26% on 11/22/2019. Recent Treasury yield
information is provided in the table below:
Date 6 Mo 1 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 5 Yr 7 Yr 10 Yr 20 Yr 30 Yr
11/25/20191.611.581.611.601.621.711.762.072.21
What is Alaska Air Groups weighted average cost of capital? If you need to make some
assumptions, state them clearly

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