Calculate WACC: Flax Industries finances its projects using a Target Capital Structure of: Cost of Short and Long Term Borrowing ( 3 points) 1. Flax Industries uses a permanent line of credit thru a Short-Term Credit Facility to finance Short-Term Notes at a flat rate cost of 5% year. (i.e., Rs-t =5% ) 2. Flax Industries can issue New Bonds with a $1000 par value bonds, a 4.50% coupon rate with a 30 -year maturity at a price of $1041.95. Coupon payments are annually. Assume no flotation costs for issuing bonds. Find YTM=Rd Cost of Preferred Stock (3 points) 3. Flax can also issue New Preferred Stock paying a 7% dividend coupon on $25 par at a price =$24.56 per share. Flotation costs for issuing new Preferred Stock is equal to 5% of the sales price. Dividends are paid once per year. Estimate the cost of New Preferred Stock with flotation costs (Rp). Cost of Common Equity (9 points) 4. Flax's common stock is currently trading at $60 per share. Next year, Flax expects to pay a dividend of $.75 s share out of eamings of $3.75 per share (i.e., EPS1=$3.75;D1=$.75 ). Current Retum on Equity =NOI/ Equity =12% (i.c., ROE=12% ). Calculate the cost of equity (Rs) using the DDM: Rs=(D1/PO)+g. Remember an estimate of g=ROEb, where b is the percent of earnings retained within the firm: b= Earnings retained/EPS; Retained Eamings = EPS - dividends. 5. Analyst estimate the company's beta at =1.10; the 10-year T-Note risk free rate =3%(Rf=3%); and the refurn on the market portfolio is estimated at 11.0%(Rm=11.0%). Using the CAPM estimate required return on equity (Rs). 6. Flax also estimates Cost of Equity using its 30 -year Bond Yield +7% equity risk premium. What is the Cost of Equity? 7. Find an overall average Cost of Equity by averaging the costs you found in 4, 5,&6 above. You will use this Rs estimate in calculating Flax Industries WACC in (8) below. 8. Calculate the WACC using the Target Structure weights given above, and your calculations for Short-Term Notes (1); Long Term Bonds YTM (2); Cost of Preferred Stock (3), and Overall Average for the Cost of Common Equity (7). You will use your WACC estimate in the Capital Budgeting Problem. (5 points)