Barclays Deck
What happens to a company's WACC as it adds more and more debt?
Model answer
It's a U-shape, not a straight line. Initially WACC falls: you're replacing expensive equity with cheaper, tax-shielded debt. But leverage makes the remaining equity riskier — beta re-levers, so the…
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