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An analyst is relevering the beta for a target company to determine its cost of equity. The average unlevered beta of comparable firms is 1.26.
If the target company has a Debt-to-Equity ratio of 1.67 and a corporate tax rate of 25%, what is the target's levered beta?
- 2.10
- 3.36
- 1.26
- 2.84
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