QUESTION 18 ABC company’s market value of common stock

Question # 00081897 Posted By: paul911 Updated on: 07/12/2015 08:19 AM Due on: 08/11/2015
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QUESTION 18

ABC company’s market value of common stock is $200 million, preferred stock is $300 million, and debt is $500 million. Suppose that the cost of equity is 7%, the before-tax cost of debt is 5.9%, cost of preferred stock is 5.1%, and the tax rate is 31%.
Compute the WACC.
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QUESTION 19

You take a loan of $44,057 to buy a car. As per the terms of the loan, you need to make monthly payments for 3 years at a 3.1% rate of interest. What is the amount of each monthly payment?
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QUESTION 20

Suppose that today's stock price is $31. If the required rate on equity is 16.6% and the growth rate is 4.2%, compute the expected dividend (i.e. compute D1)
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QUESTION 21

How many years will it take for your money to grow from $315 to $769 at 14% compounded semi-annually?
Enter your answer rounded off to two decimal points.







QUESTION 22

The ABC Company has a cost of equity of 9.2 percent, a pre-tax cost of debt of 6.7 percent, and a tax rate of 26 percent. What is the firm’s weighted average cost of capital if the weight of debt is 78 percent?
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QUESTION 23

The ABC Co. has $1,000 face value stock outstanding with a market price of $1,094.7. The stock pays interest annually, matures in 8 years, and has a yield to maturity of 9.7 percent. What is the annual coupon amount? 
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QUESTION 24

If you receive $1,391 at the end of each year for the first three years and $7,523 at the end of each year for the next three years. What is the net present value of this cash flow stream? Assume interest rate is 4.3%.
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QUESTION 25

The risk-free rate is 6.4%, the market risk premium is 7.5%, and the stock’s beta is 1.52. What is the cost of common stock (Ke)?
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QUESTION 26

You want to create a portfolio as risky as the market. Suppose you invest your money in Stocks A, B, C, and the risk-free asset. Compute your investment in Stock C (i.e. solve for weight of Stock C)? 
Stock Weights Beta
A 16 1.2
B 11 0.6
C ? 1.8
Rf ? ?
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QUESTION 27

You have observed the following returns on ABC's stocks over the last five years: 
22.9%, 14.7%, -4.9%, 13.8%, 8.3%
What is the arithmetic average returns on the stock over this five-year period.
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QUESTION 28

You have a portfolio of two risky stocks which turns out to have no diversification benefit. The reason you have no diversification is the returns: 



are completely unrelated to one another. 


move perfectly opposite of one another. 


move perfectly with one another. 


are too large to offset. 


are too small.





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