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Ganado's Cost of Capital. Maria Gonzalez, Ganado's Chief Financial Officer, estimates the risk-free rate to be 3.00%, the company's credit risk premium is 4.30%, the domestic beta is estimated at 0.97, the international beta is estimated at 0.64, and the company's capital structure is now 55% debt. The expected rate of return on the market portfolio held by a well-diversified domestic investor is 9.50% and the expected return on a larger globally integrated equity market portfolio is 8.70%. The before-tax cost of debt estimated by observing the current yield on Ganado's outstanding bonds combined with bank debt is 8.10% and the company's effective tax rate is 39%. For both the domestic CAPM and ICAPM, calculate the following: a. Ganado's cost of equity b. Ganado's after-tax cost of debt c. Ganado's weighted average cost of capital