The Nantucket Nugget Is Unlevered and Is Valued at $640,000

question 3

Essay

The Nantucket Nugget is unlevered and is valued at $640,000. Nantucket is currently deciding whether including debt in their capital structure would increase their value. The current cost of equity is 12%. Under consideration is issuing $300,000 in new debt with an 8% interest rate. Nantucket would repurchase $300,000 of stock with the proceeds of the debt issue. There are currently 32,000 shares outstanding and their effective marginal tax bracket is zero. What will Nantucket's new WACC be?

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Definitions:

Marginal Product

The additional output derived from the addition of one more unit of a variable input, holding all other inputs constant.

Marginal Cost

refers to the increase in cost when producing one additional unit of output.

Average Variable Costs

Refers to the total variable costs (costs that change with production levels) divided by the quantity of output produced.

Average Fixed Costs

The total fixed costs of production divided by the total quantity of output produced, illustrating how fixed costs spread over units as output increases.