Vedder inc has 79 million shares of common stock


Vedder, Inc., has 7.9 million shares of common stock outstanding. The current share price is $62.90, and the book value per share is $5.90. Vedder also has two bond issues outstanding. The first bond issue has a face value of $71.9 million, a coupon rate of 7.4 percent, and sells for 88.5 percent of par. The second issue has a face value of $36.9 million, a coupon rate of 8.4 percent, and sells for 87.5 percent of par. The first issue matures in 18 years, the second in 10 years. The most recent dividend was $3.80 and the dividend growth rate is 5 percent. Assume that the overall cost of debt is the weighted average of that implied by the two outstanding debt issues. Both bonds make semiannual payments. The tax rate is 40 percent.

Required: What is the company’s WACC? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).) WACC %

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