Your company has two? divisions: One division sells software and the other division sells computers through a direct sales? channel, primarily taking orders over the internet. You have decided that Dell Computer is very similar to your computer?division, in terms of both risk and financing. You go online and find the following? information: Dell's beta is 1.19?, the? risk-free rate is 4.7%?, its market value of equity is $67.2 billion, and it has $707 million worth of debt with a yield to maturity of 5.9%. Your tax rate is 35% and you use a market risk premium of 5.2% in your WACC estimates.
a. What is an estimate of the WACC for your computer sales? division?
b. If your overall company WACC is 12.6% and the computer sales division represents 40% of the value of your? firm, what is an estimate of the WACC for your software? division?