. Find the component costs of debt, preferred stock, and common stock. b. What is the WACC?

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Honda Inc. (HI) has the following capital structure, which it considers to be optimal: debt = 25%, preferred stock = 15%, and common stock = 60%. Honda Inc.’s tax rate is 40%, and investors expect earnings and dividends to grow at a constant rate of 6% in the future. Honda Inc. paid a dividend of $3.70 per share last year (D0), and its stock currently sells at a price of $60 per share. Ten-year Treasury

bonds yield 6%, the market risk premium is 5%, and Honda Inc.’s beta is 1.3. The following terms would apply to new security offerings.

 

Preferred: New preferred could be sold to the public at a price of $100 per share, with a dividend of $9. Flotation costs of $5 per share would be incurred.

Debt: Debt could be sold at an interest rate of 9%.

Common: New common equity will be raised only by retaining earnings

a. Find the component costs of debt, preferred stock, and common stock.

b. What is the WACC?

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