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A private equity manager is calculating the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) for a target. The risk-free rate is 4%, the equity risk premium is 6%, and the levered beta is 1.5.

If the target's pre-tax cost of debt is 8%, the tax rate is 25%, and the capital structure is 40% debt / 60% equity, what is the WACC?

  1. 10.2%
  2. 9.4%
  3. 13.0%
  4. 11.0%

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