Question 1: Cost of common stock: Seerex Wok Co. is expected to pay a dividend of $1.10 one year from today on its common shares. That dividend is expected to increase by 5 percent every year thereafter. If the price of Seerex is $13.75, then what is Seerex's cost of common equity?
Question 2: Cost of common stock:Fjord Luxury Liners has preferred shares outstanding that pay an annual dividend equal to $15. If the current price of Fjord preferred shares is $181, then what is the after-tax cost of preferred shares for Fjord?
Question 3: Cost of debt for a firm: You are analyzing the after-tax cost of debt for a firm. You know that the firm's 12-year maturity, 9.5 percent coupon bonds that pay interest semiannually are selling at a price of $1,200. If these bonds are the only debt outstanding for the firm, the after-tax cost of debt for this firm if the marginal tax rate for the firm is 34 percent is _____%.
Question 4: You know that the return of Momentum Cyclicals' common shares reacts to macroeconomic information 1.80 more times than the return of the market. If the risk-free rate of return is 3.80 percent and the market risk premium is 6 percent, then what is Momentum Cyclicals' cost of common equity capital?
Question 5: The Gearing Company has an after-tax cost of debt capital of 4 percent, a cost of preferred stock of 8 percent, a cost of equity capital of 10 percent, and a weighted average cost of capital of 7 percent. Gearing intends to maintain its current capital structure as it raises additional capital. In making its capital-budgeting decisions for the average-risk project, the relevant cost of capital is
- 7 percent
- 10 percent
- 4 percent
- 8 percent