Exam 3 Chp 14 (WACC)

Kelley Couriers just paid its annual dividend of $5.25 per share. The stock has a market price of $58.25 and a beta of 1.2. The return on the U.S. Treasury bill is 1 percent and the market risk premium is 8.5 percent. What is the cost of equity?

11.2%

Assume a firm has a debt-equity ratio of .62. The firm's weighted average cost of capital is the:

rate of return a company must earn on its existing assets to maintain the current value of its stock.

For any given capital project proposal, the discount rate should be based on the:

risks associated with the use of the funds required by the project.

More by Moore has a growth rate of 4.3 percent and its stock is currently selling for $31.88 per share. It is equally as risky as the market. The stock market has an expected return of 13 percent and an expected market risk premium of 11.55 percent. What is the expected rate of return on the stock?

13%

The Market Outlet is an all-equity financed firm with a beta of 1.08 and a cost of equity of 12.58 percent. The risk-free rate of return is 3.6 percent. What discount rate should the firm assign to a new project that has a beta of 1.22?

13.74%

Castillo Corporation common stock is currently priced at $39.75 per share. The company just paid $4.35 per share as its annual dividend. The dividends have been increasing by 7.5 percent annually and are expected to continue doing the same. What is the cost of equity?

19.26%

Decline, Incorporated, is trying to determine its cost of debt. The firm has a debt issue outstanding with 13 years to maturity that is quoted at 105.2 percent of face value. The issue makes semiannual payments and has an embedded cost of 6 percent annually. What is the aftertax cost of debt if the tax rate is 21 percent?

4.3%

Which of the following statements regarding the cost of preferred stock is accurate?

It equals the dividend yield.

Assume a firm employs debt in its capital structure. Which of the following statements is accurate?

The WACC would most likely decrease if the firm replaced its preferred stock with debt.

When evaluating any capital project proposal, the cost of capital:

depends upon how the funds raised for that project are going to be spent.

Assume a firm has a debt-equity ratio of .48. The firm's cost of equity is:

directly related to the risk level of the firm.

With respect to capital project analysis, which of the following statements is accurate?

) Overall, a company makes better decisions when it uses the subjective approach than when it uses its WACC as the discount rate for all projects.

The common stock of Metal Molds has a negative growth rate of 1.63 percent and a required return of 18.21 percent. The current stock price is $9.82. What was the amount of the last dividend paid?

$1.98

Carson Electronics uses 58 percent common stock and 42 percent debt to finance its operations. The aftertax cost of debt is 5.4 percent and the cost of equity is 15.3 percent. Management is considering a project that will produce a cash inflow of $49,600 in the first year. The cash inflows will then grow at 2.5 percent per year forever. What is the maximum amount the firm can initially invest in this project to avoid a negative net present value for the project?

$573,941

Assume a firm utilizes the security market line approach to determine the cost of equity. If the firm currently pays an annual dividend of $3.36 per share and has a beta of 1.38, all else constant, which of the following actions will increase the firm's cost of equity?

) A decrease in the risk-free rate

Assume a firm utilizes its WACC as the discount rate for every capital project it implements. Accordingly, the firm will tend to:

) increase the average risk level of the company over time.

Walker Systems has an issue of preferred stock outstanding with a stated annual dividend of $2.60 that just sold for $23.85 per share. What is the bank's cost of preferred stock?

10.90%

The Well Derrick has 6.3 percent preferred stock outstanding that sells for $57 per share. This stock was originally issued at $45 per share and has a stated value of $100 per share. What is the cost of preferred stock if the relevant combined tax rate is 23 percent?

11.05%

Cookie Dough Manufacturing has a target debt-equity ratio of .76. Its cost of equity is 15.3 percent, and its pretax cost of debt is 9 percent. What is the WACC given a tax rate of 21 percent?

11.76%

Kelso's has a debt-equity ratio of .62 and a tax rate of 21 percent. The firm does not issue preferred stock. The cost of equity is 16.3 percent and the aftertax cost of debt is 5.21 percent. What is the weighted average cost of capital?

12.06%

Patel & Howell has zero coupon bonds outstanding that mature in 4 years. The bonds have a face value of $1,000 and a current market price of $798. What is the pretax cost of debt? (Use semiannual compounding.)

5.72%

The Downtowner has 168,000 shares of common stock outstanding valued at $53 per share along with 13,000 bonds selling for $1,008 each. What weight should be given to the debt when the company computes its weighted average cost of capital?

59.54%

Phillips Equipment has 6,500 bonds outstanding that are selling at 96.5 percent of par. Bonds with similar characteristics are yielding 6.7 percent, pretax. The company also has 48,000 shares of 5.5 percent preferred stock and 75,000 shares of common stock outstanding. The preferred stock sells for $64 per share. The common stock has a beta of 1.32 and sells for $41 per share. The preferred stock has a stated value of $100. The U.S. Treasury bill is yielding 2.2 percent and the return on the market is 10.6 percent. The corporate tax rate is 21 percent. What is the weighted average cost of capital?

8.09%