Colorado Coal Company has estimated the costs of debt and equity capital (with bankruptcy and agency costs) for various proportions of debt in its capital structure.
debt ratio pretax cost cost of equity weighted average
[B/(B+E)] of debt cost of capital
0.00 12.00
0.15 13.00 11.68
0.30 8.00 14.50
0.45 16.50 11.775
14.00 19.00 12.64
The company’s income tax rate is 40 percent.
a. Fill in the missing entries in the table.
b. Determine the capital structure (i.e., debt ratio) that minimizes the firm’s weighted average cost of capital
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