1. MV corporation has debt with Market value of $100 million, common equity with a book value of $100 million, and preferred stock woth $20 million outstanding. It's common equity trades at $50 per share, and the firm has 6 million shares outstanding. What weights should MV corporation use in its WACC
2. Book co. has 1.5 million shares of common stock equity with a par (book) value of $1.40, retained earnings of $28.1 million, and its shares have a market value of $51.74 per share. it also has debt with a par value of $19.1 million that is trading at 104% of par.
a. What is the market value of its equity?
b. What is the market value of its debt?
c. What weights should it use in computing its WACC?
3. Avicorp has a $10 million debt issue outstanding, with a 6% coupon rate. The debt has semiannual coupons, the next coupon is due in six months, and the debt matures in five years. It is currently priced at 95% of par value.
(a) What is Avicorp’s pretax cost of debt?
(b) If Avicor faces a 40% tax rate, what is its after-tax cost of debt? The after-tax cost of debt for Avicor is:
4. Dewyco has preferred stock trading at $50 per share. The next preferred dividend of $4 is due in one year. What is Dewyco’s cost of capital for preferred stock?
5. Steady Company's stock has a beta of 0.24. If the risk-free rate is 5.8% and the market risk premium is 7.1%, what is an estimate of Steady Company's cost of equity?
(round to one decimal place)
6. HighGrowth Company has a stock price of $20. The firm will pay a dividend of $1 next year, and its divident is expected to grow at a rate of 4% per year thereafter. What is your estimate of HighGrowth's cost of equity capital?
7. CoffeeCarts has a cost of equity of 15%, an effective cost of debt of 4%, and it's financed 70% with equity and 30% with debt. What is this firm's WACC?
8. AllCity Inc is financed 40% with debt, 10% with preferred stock, and 50% with common stock. Its pretax cost of debt is 6%. Its preferred stock pays an annual dividend of $2.50 and is priced at $30. It has an equity beta of 1.1. Assume the risk-free rate is 2%, the market risk premium is 7% and AllCity's tax rate is 35%. What is its after-tax WACC?
9. Growth company's current share price is $20 and is expected to pay a $1 dicidend per share next year. After that, the firm's dividends are expected to grow at a rate of 4% per year.
Growth company has existing debt issued three years ago with a coupon rate of 6%. The firm just issued new debt at a par with a coupon rate of 6.5%.
a. What is Growth Company's pre-tax cost of debt?
b. Growth Company also has preferred stock outstanding that pays $2 per share fixed dividend. If the stock is currently price at $28, what is Growth Company's cost of preffered stock?
c. Growth Company has existing debt issued three years ago with a coupon rate of 6%. The firm just issued new debt at par with a coupon rate of 6.5%. What is Growth Company's pretax cost of debt?
d. Growth Company has 5 million common shares outstanding and 1 million preferred shares outstanding, at its total book value is $50 million. Its liabilitities have a market value of $20 million. If Growth Company's common and preferred shares priced as in parts a and b, what is the market value of Growth Company's assets?
e. Growth Company faces a 35% tax rate. Given the information in parts a through d, and your answers to those problems, what is Growth Company's WACC?
10. A retail coffee company is planning to open 100 new coffee outlets that are expected to generate, in total, $15 million in free cash flows per year, with a growth rate of 3% in perpetuity. If the coffee company’s WACC is 10%, what is the NPV of this expansion?