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A company has a Cost of Equity of 12% and an after-tax Cost of Debt of 4%. Its current Market Cap is $600 million and it has $400 million in debt.

If it issues $200 million in new equity to retire $200 million of debt, what happens to the WACC (assuming no change in the cost of components)?

  1. WACC decreases because financial risk is lower
  2. WACC remains the same
  3. WACC increases
  4. WACC decreases

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