Financial leverage A firm issues long-term debt with an effective interest rate of 10%, and the proceeds of this debt issue can be invested to earn an ROI of 12%. What effect will this financial leverage have on the firm's ROE relative to having the same amount of funds invested by the owners/stockholders?

Financial leverage A firm issues long-term debt with an effective interest rate of 10%, and the proceeds of this debt issue can be invested to earn an ROI of 12%. What effect will this financial leverage have on the firm's ROE relative to having the same amount of funds invested by the owners/stockholders?

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2. Concatti Corporation hired your consulting firm to help them estimate the cost of equity. The yield on the firm's bonds is 10.50%, and your firm's economists believe that the cost of equity can be estimated using a risk premium of 4.85% over a firm's own cost of debt. What is an estimate of the firm's cost of equity from retained earnings?
Estimate your firm’s Weighted Average Cost of Capital. Assume that the current risk-free rate of interest is 3.5%, the market risk premium is 5%, and the corporate tax rate is 21%. Ø Debt: • Total book value: $10 million • Total market value: $12 million • Coupon rate: 6% • Yield to Maturity: 5% Ø Common Stock: • Total book value: $15 million • Total market value: $20 million • Beta = 1.1 Ø Preferred Stock: • Total book value: $2 million • Total market value: $2.5 million • Price per share: $20 • Dividend per share: $1.50 What is your firm’s Weighted Average Cost of Capital (input as a raw number, i.e. if your answer is 7.1%, input 7.1)?
Assume there are two firms with a MV of $50,000,000. Firm A consists of 10% debt and 90% equity. Firm B consists of 40% debt and 60% equity. Assume perfect capital markets and M&M Proposition 2 holds. Which firm will have a higher expected return for equity holders? Why? For the toolhar prace ALT+F10/PC or ALT+FN+F10 (Mac).
Assume perfect capital markets. A firm has a market value of $30, 000 and debt of $7, 500 horrowed at 7%. The return on equity is 18%. What is the return on equity if the firm was unlevered? (Hint: Think about WACC, WACCL = WACCU)
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What is the company's cost of debt? a. 9.21%b. 10.31%c. 11.5%d. 7.73% What is the company's cost of equity using the Capital Asset Pricing Model? a. 9.21%b. 10.31%c. 11.5%d. 7.73%
What is the cost of equity based on the dividend growth model? What is the cost of equity based on the security market line? What market weights should be given to the various capital components in the weighted average cost of capital computation What is the weighted average cost of capital using the cost equity calculated based on CAPM?
OPTIMAL CAPITAL STRUCTURE Terrell Trucking Company is in the process of setting its target capital structure. The CFO believes that the optimal debt-to-capital ratio is somewhere between 20% and 50%, and her staff has compiled the following projections for EPS and the stock price at various debt levels: Debt/Capital Ratio Projected EPS Projected Stock Price20% $3.10 $34.2530 3.55 36.0040 3.70 35.5050 3.55 34.00Assuming that the firm uses only debt and common equity, what is Terrell’s optimal capital structure? At what debt-to-capital ratio is the company’s WACC minimized?
Which statement is correct?a. The cost of debt is determined by taking the present value of the interest payments and principal times one minus the tax rate.b. The difference in computing the cost of capital between using the accumulated profits and issuance of new ordinary shares is the growth rate.c. Increase in flotation costs, increase in the company’s beta and increase in the expected inflation will all lead to d. increase the company’s weighted average cost of capital.e. Increasing the company’s dividend payout would mitigate the company’s need to raise new ordinary shares.f. none of the above
A firm wants a sustainable growth rate of 3.13 percent while maintaining a dividend payout ratio of 27 percent and a profit margin of 6 percent. The firm has a capital intensity ratio of 2. What is the debt-equity ratio that is required to achieve the firm's desired rate of growth? Multiple Choice O OO OO 69 times 61 times 73 times 20 times 39 times

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