Your boss, whose background is in financial planning, is concerned about the company’s high-weighted average cost of capital of 21%. He has asked you to determine what combination of debt-equity financing would lower the company’s WACC to 13%. If the cost of the company’s equity capital is 6% and the cost of debt financing is 28%, what debt- equity mix would you recommend?
What will be an ideal response?
Let x = percentage of debt financing; Then, 1- x = percentage of equity financing
0.13 = x(0.28) + (1-x)(0.06)
0.22x = 0.07
x = 31.8%
Recommendation: debt-equity mix should be 31.8% debt and 68.2% equity financing
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