5 Dye Industries currently uses no debt, but its new CFO is considering changing the capital structure to 40.0% debt (wd) by issuing bonds and using the proceeds to repurchase and retire common shares...

Dye Industries currently uses no debt, but its new CFO is considering changing the capital structure to 40.0% debt (wd) by issuing bonds and using the proceeds to repurchase and retire common shares so the percentage of common equity in the capital structure (wc) = 1 – wd.  Given the data shown below, by how much would this recapitalization change the firm's cost of equity, i.e., what is rL - rU?


Risk-free rate, rRF            6.00%                  Tax rate, T      30%
Market risk premium, RPM      4.00%                  Current wd      0%
Current beta, bU             1.15                  Target wd      40%

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