Finance Questions

Coral Inc.'s preferred stock currently sells for $90 a share and pays a dividend of $10 per share; however, the firm will net only $80 per share from the sale of new preferred stock. What is the firm's cost of newly issued preferred stock? (Round off the answer to two decimal places.)​

Alpha Inc. combines the marginal cost of capital (MCC) and the investment opportunity schedules (IOS) on a graph. Which of the following areas on the graph shows the maximum excess of returns over costs?​

SW Inc.'s preferred stock, which pays a $5 dividend each year, currently sells for $62.50. The company's marginal tax rate is 40 percent. What is the cost of preferred stock, rps, that should be included in the computation of the SW Inc.'s weighted average cost of capital (WACC)?​

Beige Inc. plans to issue preferred stock that pays an $11.50 dividend per share and sells for $120 per share in the market. It will cost 4 percent, or $4.80 per share, to issue the new preferred stock, so Beige will net $115.20 per share. Which of the following is Beige's cost of preferred stock? (Round off the answer to two decimal places.)​

Which of the following is an assumption in applying the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to estimate the cost of equity capital?​

Which of the following is a capital component for the purpose of calculating the weighted average cost of capital in capital budgeting?​

Which of the following components of capital structure is adjusted to account for tax savings?​

Bouchard Company's stock sells for $20 per share, its last dividend (D0) was $1.00, its growth rate is a constant 6 percent, and the company would incur a flotation cost of 20 percent if it sold new common stock. Which of the following is the cost of issuing new common stock? (Round off the answer to two decimal places.)​

Marigold Inc.'s common stock currently sells for $40 per share, but the firm will net only $34 per share from the sale of new common stock. The firm recently paid a dividend of $2 per share on its common stock, and investors expect the dividend to grow indefinitely at a constant rate of 10 percent per year. Which of the following is the cost of newly issued common stock? (Round off the answer to two decimal places.

Omega Inc.'s net income is expected to be $600,000 and the firm's payout ratio is 60 percent. The firm's common stock ratio is 30 percent and it has no preferred stock outstanding. Which of the following is the retained earnings break point for Omega Inc.?​

Super Solutions Inc. is a constant growth firm, which just paid a dividend of $3.00, sells for $33.00 per share, and has a growth rate of 6 percent. Which of the following is the cost of retained earnings using the discounted cash flow (DCF) approach? (Round off the answer to two decimal places.)​

The Jackson Company has just paid a dividend of $3.00 per share on its common stock, and it expects this dividend to grow by 10 percent per year, indefinitely. The firm has a beta of 1.50; the risk-free rate is 10 percent; and the expected return on the market is 14 percent. Which of the following is the required rate of return as per the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) approach?​

The CAPM statement for alternative investments

Oval Inc. has just paid a dividend of $1.50 per share on its common stock, and it expects this dividend to grow by 4 percent per year, indefinitely. The firm plans to issue common stock at $16. The firm's investment bankers believe that new issues of common stock would have a flotation cost equal to 4 percent of the current market price. Which of the following is the cost of newly issued common stock? (Round off the answer to two decimal places.)​

The MCC schedule is either horizontal or rising, which implies that the cost of capital to a firm increases as it raises larger and larger amounts of capital. The rising section of the MCC schedule:​

Beige Inc. has to choose from three projects whose internal rates of return (IRRs) are more than the marginal cost of capital (MCC). Beige should choose those projects that _____.​

Asset Allocation: RISK PREMIUM (Expected Return) 2/2

Alternative Investments: Liquid Als vs Illiquid AIs

The _____ is equal to the average rate of return that investors require to provide funds to the firm in the form of debt.​

Tangerine Inc.'s target capital structure is 20 percent debt, 20 percent preferred stock, and 60 percent common equity. Its bonds have a 12 percent coupon, paid semiannually, a current maturity of 20 years, and sell for $1,000. The firm's marginal tax rate is 40 percent. The firm's policy is to use a risk premium of 4 percentage points when using the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium method to find the cost of retained earnings. Which of the following is Tangerine's component cost of retained earnings?​