Kashmiri's Cost of Capital. Kashmiri is the largest and most successful specialty goods company based in Bangalore, India. It has not yet entered the North American marketplace but is considering establishing both manufacturing and distribution facilities in the United States through a wholly owned subsidiary. It has approached two different investment banking advisors, Goldman Sachs and Bank of New York, for estimates of what its costs of capital would be several years into the future when it planned to list its American subsidiary on a U.S. stock exchange. Using the assumptions by the two different advisors (in the popup window) calculate the prospective costs of debt, equity, and the WACC for Kashmiri (U.S.).

What is the after-tax cost of debt estimated by Goldman Sachs for Kashmiri? (Round to two decimal places.)

Goldman Sachs Bank of New York 0.31 Symbol Assumptions Estimate of correlation between security and market Estimate of standard deviation of Kashmiri's returns Estimate of standard deviation of market's return Risk-free rate of interest Estimate of Kashmiri's cost of debt in U.S market Estimate of market return, forward-looking Corporate tax rate Proportion of debt Proportion of equity 0.81 jm 24.8% 29.2% 18.9% 21.6% 3.5% 3.5% rf 7 7% 8.6% 1 1.6% D/V E/V 38% 25% 38% 40% 60%