A company's perpetual preferred stock currently sells for $92.50 per share, and it pays an $8.00 annual dividend. If the company were to sell a new preferred issue, it would incur a flotation cost of 5.00% of the issue price. What is the firm's cost of preferred stock?

a. 8.65%

b. 9.56%

c. 9.10%

d. 7.81%

e. 8.22%

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