Your company is expanding the production and plans to shift production to Thailand. To enable the expansion, they are contemplating investing $1.7 billion in a new plant with an expected 10-year life. The anticipated free cash flows from the new plant would be $250 million the first year of operation and grow by 10% for each of the next two years and then 6% per year for the remaining seven years. As a newly hired graduate in the capital budgeting division you have been asked to evaluate the new project using Adjusted Present Value, and Flow-to-Equity methods, i.e. to compute net present values with each method using the appropriate costs of capital provided
| Total equity | 8,075,000 |
| Total debt | 3,108,000 |
| Risk free interest rate | 0.80% |
| BETA | 0.37 |
| market rate of return | 11.49% |
| Income Tax Rate (%) | 28.30% |
| interest | $183,000 |
| cost of debt(rd) | 5.89% |
| cost of equity | 4.755300% |
| levered WACC | 4.61% |
| unlevered WACC | 5.07% |


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