Deighton Industries has 200,000 bonds outstanding. The par value of each corporate bond is $1,000, and the current market price of the bonds is $965. Deighton also has 6 million common shares outstanding, with a book value of $35 per share and a market price of $28 per share. At a recent board of directors meeting, Deighton board members decided not to change the company’s capital structure in a material way for the future. To calculate the weighted average cost of Deighton’s capital, what weights should be assigned to debt and to equity?
In order to calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), market value weights should be used.
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200,000 × $965 |
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$193,000,000 |
For the stocks |
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6,000,000 × $28 |
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$168,000,000 |
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$361,000,000 |
The weight of debt would be: 193,000,000 / 361,000,000 = 0.5346 = 53.46% The weight of common stock would be: 168,000,000 / 361,000,000 = 0.4654 = 46.54%
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