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, suppose the book value of the debt issue is $70 million. In addition, the company has a second debt issue on the market, a zero coupon bond with 12 years left to maturity; the book value of this issue is $100 million and the bonds sell for 61 percent of par. What is the company’s total book value of debt? The total market value? What is your best estimate of the aftertax cost of debt now? (Assume that semi-annual compounding is used for the zero-coupon bond.)

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Answer: See explanation

Explanation:

a. The company's total book value of debt will be:

= Value of debt + Value of zero coupon bonds

= $70 million + $100 million

= $170 million

b. The market value will be:

= Quoted price × Par value

= ($70 × 1.08) + ($100 × 0.61)

= $75.6 + $61

= $136.6 million

c. The aftertax cost of debt will be:

= (1 - Tax rate) × Pre tax cost of debt

= (1 - 35%) × 5.7%

= 65% × 5.7%

= 3.7%

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