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问题如下:
Two years ago, a company issued $20 million in long-term bonds at par value with a coupon rate of 9 percent. The company has decided to issue an additional $20 million in bonds and expects the new issue to be priced at par value with a coupon rate of 7 percent. The company has no other debt outstanding and has a tax rate of 40 percent. To compute the company's weighted average cost of capital, the appropriate after-tax cost of debt is closest to:
选项:
A.
4.2%.
B.
4.8%.
C.
5.4%.
解释:
A is correct.
The relevant cost is the marginal cost of debt. The before-tax marginal cost of debt can be estimated by the yield to maturity on a comparable outstanding. After adjusting for tax, the after-tax cost is 7(1 − 0.4) = 7(0.6) = 4.2%.
请问这道题的解法是否可以理解为:WACC中用的都是marginal cost of capital. 在平价发行的情况下,additional的这20m相对应的cost of Dey就直接是7%,因为是additional。请问这样理解逻辑成立吗?