medium · CFA Level I corp
In a world with corporate taxes but no financial distress costs, if Helion Rail maintains a positive spread between its unlevered cost of equity and its cost of debt, its value is maximized when:
- It reaches the interior optimum where marginal tax benefits equal distress costs
- Its WACC is equal to its unlevered cost of capital
- It is 100% debt-financed
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