Southern Healthcare and BestWell are for-profit HMOs that operate in Florida and Georgia. Currently, both are identical in every respect except that Southern is unleveraged while BestWell has $10 million of 5 percent bonds. Both HMOs report an EBIT of $2 million and pay corporate tax at a rate of 40 percent. The cost of equity to Southern is 10 percent. Assume that all of the MM assumptions hold.
What is the required rate of return on equity for Southern Healthcare?