1. PeteCorp's stock has a Beta of 1.21. Its dividend is expected to be $2.03 next year, and will grow by 5% per year after that indefinitely. Assume the risk-free rate is 4%, and the Market Risk Premium is 8%. The stock price would currently be estimated to be $________.
2. A stock has a Beta of 1.0. The risk-free rate is 4.9%, and the Market Risk Premium is estimated at 7.8%. The firm's cost of common equity, Re, is _____%
3. Walter Corp.'s outstanding bonds have a 5.8% coupon, 5 years left until maturity, and are currently priced at $974.67. The firm's marginal tax rate is 36%. Walter's after-tax cost of debt is ____%.
4. What is cost-volume-profit analysis? And how would it help firm to figure out when it would start collecting profits?