1. Cost of Common Equity with and without Flotation

The Evanec Company's next expected dividend, D1, is $3.17; its growth rate is 6%; and its common stock now sells for $34. New stock (external equity) can be sold to net $28.90 per share.

What is Evanec's cost of retained earnings, rs? Round your answer to two decimal places. rs = ____%

What is Evanec's percentage flotation cost, F? Round your answer to two decimal places. F = ______%

What is Evanec's cost of new common stock, re? Round your answer to two decimal places. re = ____%

2. WACC

The following table gives Foust Company's earnings per share for the last 10 years. The common stock, 8.6 million shares outstanding, is now (1/1/15) selling for $76 per share. The expected dividend at the end of the current year (12/31/15) is 65% of the 2014 EPS. Because investors expect past trends to continue, g may be based on the historical earnings growth rate. (Note that 9 years of growth are reflected in the 10 years of data.)

Year	EPS		Year	EPS
2005	$3.90		2010	$5.73
2006	4.21		2011	6.19
2007	4.55		2012	6.68
2008	4.91		2013	7.22
2009	5.31		2014	7.80

The current interest rate on new debt is 8%; Foust's marginal tax rate is 40%; and its target capital structure is 35% debt and 65% equity.

Calculate Foust's after-tax cost of debt. Round your answer to two decimal places. _____%

Calculate Foust's cost of common equity. Calculate the cost of equity as rs = D1/P0 + g. Round your answer to two decimal places. _____%

Find Foust's WACC. Round your answer to two decimal places. _____ %

3.

Project cash flow

Eisenhower Communications is trying to estimate the first-year net operating cash flow (at Year 1) for a proposed project. The financial staff has collected the following information on the project:

Sales revenues	$25 million
Operating costs (excluding depreciation)	17.5 million
Depreciation	5 million
Interest expense	5 million

The company has a 40% tax rate, and its WACC is 12%.

Write out your answers completely. For example, 13 million should be entered as 13,000,000.

What is the project's operating cash flow for the first year (t = 1)? Round your answer to the nearest cent. $ ______

If this project would cannibalize other projects by $2.5 million of cash flow before taxes per year, how would this change your answer to part a? Round your answer to the nearest cent. The firm's OCF would now be $ _____

Ignore Part b. If the tax rate dropped to 35%, how would that change your answer to part a? Round your answer to the nearest cent. The firm's operating cash flow would increase or decrease Item by $ ____

4.

New project analysis

You must evaluate a proposed spectrometer for the R&D department. The base price is $280,000, and it would cost another $42,000 to modify the equipment for special use by the firm. The equipment falls into the MACRS 3-year class and would be sold after 3 years for $126,000. The applicable depreciation rates are 33%, 45%, 15%, and 7%. The equipment would require an $13,000 increase in net operating working capital (spare parts inventory). The project would have no effect on revenues, but it should save the firm $44,000 per year in before-tax labor costs. The firm's marginal federal-plus-state tax rate is 40%.

What is the initial investment outlay for the spectrometer, that is, what is the Year 0 project cash flow? Round your answer to the nearest cent. $ ______

What are the project's annual cash flows in Years 1, 2, and 3? Round your answers to the nearest cent. in Year 1 $ ____ in Year 2 $ ____ in Year 3 $ ____