A Dozen Monkeys Ltd. has the following right-hand side of its balance sheet: Debt: 8% coupon, 12
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A Dozen Monkeys Ltd. has the following right-hand side of its balance sheet:
Debt: 8% coupon, 12 years to maturity...........$8,000,000
Preferred shares: 5% dividend ............ ............1,000,000
Common shares: 750,000 outstanding.............1,500,000
Retained earnings ...........................................4,500,000
.......................................................................$15,000,000
New debt could be issued to yield 10 percent, with flotation costs netting the firm $970 on each $1,000 bond. Preferred shares would require a current yield of 8 percent, with aftertax flotation costs of 4 percent. Common shares currently trade at $15.00, but new shares would be discounted to $14.25 to encourage sales. Aftertax flotation costs on new common shares would be 5 percent. The anticipated dividend growth rate is 6 percent. The expected dividend is $1.50. A Dozen Monkeys Ltd. has a 40 percent tax rate and would require new share capital to fund new investments.
Based on market value weightings, calculate Monkey's weighted average cost of capital.
A dividend is a distribution of a portion of company’s earnings, decided and managed by the company’s board of directors, and paid to the shareholders. Dividends are given on the shares. It is a token reward paid to the shareholders for their...
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Foundations of Financial Management
ISBN: 978-1259024979
10th Canadian edition
Authors: Stanley Block, Geoffrey Hirt, Bartley Danielsen, Doug Short, Michael Perretta