A) As you know, any individual's view of opportunity cost is likely to be different from others'. Prices in the market - whether bonds or stocks - communicate something about what market participants overall see as opportunity cost. Or, in more market specific terms, required returns. So say you see that Fake Company Zeta closed today at $24.76. You also know that the company just announced its most recent annual dividend of $2.32. Plus, the company has a history of increasing dividends about 1.7% each year. Given this information, what is the market communicating about a required return on this stock?

B)Fake Company Pi just paid a large dividend to common shareholders of $3.92. Company executives also announced a plan to keep the dividend growing at 3.4% for the foreseeable future. If your required return on equity investments is 10.8%, what is an appropriate price for you to pay for this stock?

c)Fake Company Lambda just paid a large dividend to common shareholders of $1.84. Company executives also announced a plan to keep the dividend growing at 3.0% for the foreseeable future. If your required return on equity investments is 6.7%, what is an appropriate price for you to pay for this stock?

D) Given the following information, what is the weighted average cost of capital for this firm

long-term debt current liabilities non-current liabilities shareholder's equity preferred equity cost of debt cost of equity tax rate $250 $222 $287 $493 $0 0.06 0.09 0.30