Cost of Capital

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The Cost of Capital is the opportunity cost of making a specific investment. It refers to the rate of return that could have been earned by making a different investment with equal risk. The cost of capital represents a hurdle rate that a company must overcome before it can generate value and therefore is the rate of return required to persuade the investor in question to make a given investment.