Back to Assignment Attempts Do No Harm/5 4. The cost of retained earnings True or False: It is free for a company to raise money through retained earnings, because retained earnings represent money that is left over after dividends are paid out to shareholders. True False The cost of equity using the CAPM approach The current risk-free rate of return (TRF) is 4.67% while the market risk premium is 5.75%. The Jefferson Company has a beta of 0.92. Using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) approach, Jefferson's cost of equity is The cost of equity using the bond yield plus risk premium approach The Hoover Company is closely held and therefore, cannot generate reliable inputs with which to use the CAPM method for estimating a company's cost of internal equity. Hoover's bonds yield 11.52%, and the firm's analysts estimate that the firm's risk premium on its stock over its bonds is 4.95%. Based on the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium approach, Hoover's cost of internal equity is: O 16.47% O 20.59% O 15.65% O 18.12% The cost of equity using the discounted cash flow (or dividend growth) approach Grant Enterprises's stock is currently selling for $45.56 per share, and the firm expects its per-share dividend to be $2.35 in one year. Analysts project the firm's growth rate to be constant at 7.27%. Estimating the cost of equity using the discounted cash flow (or dividend growth) approach, what is Grant's cost of internal equity? 11.81% O 16.78% O 13.05% O 12.43% Estimating growth rates It is often difficult to estimate the expected future dividend growth rate for use in estimating the cost of existing equity using the DCF or DG approach. In general, there are three available methods to generate such an estimate