896,000,000 Total capital                                                   $1,690,000,000 Cost of Debt (kd) = 11% for amounts up to 80 M of additional Debt; will rise to 13% after that. Cost of Preferred = 10.5% at any amount

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YZ Goods target capital structure and other data follow:

Long-term debt                                             $ 754,000,000

Preferred stock                                             40,000,000

Common equity                                            896,000,000

Total capital                                                   $1,690,000,000

Cost of Debt (kd) = 11% for amounts up to 80 M of additional Debt; will rise to 13% after that.

Cost of Preferred = 10.5% at any amount

T = 40%.

P0 = $23.

g= 8%, and it is expected to remain constant.

Assume that the company expects to have total earnings of $137.8 million in 2020. Further, it has a target payout ratio of 45 percent, so it plans to pay out 45 percent of its earnings as dividends. Flotation cost of 5% is incurred for issuance of new shares.

The following projects are available for investment:

Project                        Cost (in Millions)                         Rate of Return

A                                 $50                                               13.0%

B                                 50                                                  12.5

C                                 80                                                  12.0

D                                 80                                                  10.2


A. What is the retained earnings the breakpoint for XYZ Company?

B. What is the Bonds breakpoint?

C. What is the MCC at 100M financing budget

D. What is the optimum capital budget for XYZ in 2020?

answer  a b and c

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