Question: Genedak-Hogan is an American conglomerate that is actively debating the impacts of international diversification of its operations on its capital structure and cost of capital. The firm is planning on reducing consolidated debt after diversification.

Genedak-Hogan's WACC. Calculate the weighted average cost of capital for Genedak-Hogan before and after international diversification.

a. Did the reduction in debt costs reduce the firm's weighted average cost of capital? How would you describe the impact of international diversification on its costs of capital?

b. Adding the hypothetical risk premium to the cost of equity introduced in Problem 8 (an added 3.0% to the cost of equity because of international diversification), what is the firm's WACC?

Problem: Genedak-Hogan is an American conglomerate that is actively debating the impacts of international diversification of its operations on its capital structure and cost of capital. The firm is planning on reducing consolidated debt after diversification.
Genedak-Hogan Cost of Equity. Senior management at Genedak-Hogan are actively debating the implications of diversification on its cost of equity. All agree that the company's returns will be less correlated with the reference market return in the future, the financial advisors believe that the market will assess an additional 3.0% risk premium for "going international" to the basic CAPM cost of equity. Calculate GenedakHogan's cost of equity before and after international diversification of its operations, with and without the hypothetical additional risk premium, and comment on the discussion.