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Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)

WACC represents a firm’s overall cost of capital from all sources, debt, equity, and preferred stock, weighted by their proportion in the capital structure. It’s used as a discount rate in investment appraisal to assess project feasibility and shareholder value creation.

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