Smathers Corporation stock has a beta of 1.12. The market risk premium is 7.90 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.27 percent annually. What is the company's cost of equity? 7.99% 8.22% 10.29% 12.12% 8.46%   B)    Rossdale Company stock currently sells for $70.67 per share and has a beta of 1.12. The market risk premium is 7.90 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.27 percent annually. The company just paid a dividend of $3.89 per share, which it has pledged to increase at an annual rate of 3.65 percent indefinitely. What is your best estimate of the company's cost of equity?   8.46% 9.60% 10.74% 11.56% 10.01%   C)   Bethesda Water has an issue of preferred stock outstanding with a coupon rate of 4.50 percent that sells for $91.82 per share. If the par value is $100, what is the cost of the company's preferred stock?    Multiple Choice 5.31% 4.90% 4.50% 4.60% 4.70%

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Smathers Corporation stock has a beta of 1.12. The market risk premium is 7.90 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.27 percent annually. What is the company's cost of equity?

  • 7.99%

  • 8.22%

  • 10.29%

  • 12.12%

  • 8.46%

     

    B) 

     

    Rossdale Company stock currently sells for $70.67 per share and has a beta of 1.12. The market risk premium is 7.90 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.27 percent annually. The company just paid a dividend of $3.89 per share, which it has pledged to increase at an annual rate of 3.65 percent indefinitely. What is your best estimate of the company's cost of equity?

     


    • 8.46%

    • 9.60%

    • 10.74%

    • 11.56%

    • 10.01%

       

      C)

       

      Bethesda Water has an issue of preferred stock outstanding with a coupon rate of 4.50 percent that sells for $91.82 per share. If the par value is $100, what is the cost of the company's preferred stock? 

       

      Multiple Choice
      • 5.31%

      • 4.90%

      • 4.50%

      • 4.60%

      • 4.70%

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The return a company theoretically gives to its equity investors, or shareholders, in order to make up for the risk they assume by investing their money, is known as the cost of equity. For a business to function and expand, it needs funding from other sources.

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