Ch.13

Round to 2 decimal places

(Dividend policy and the issue of new shares of common stock) Your firm needs to raise $10.2 million to finance its capital expenditures for the coming year. The firm earned $4 million last year and will pay out half this amount in dividends. If the firm's CFO wants to finance new investments using no more than 20 percent debt financing, how much common stock will the firm have to issue to raise the needed $8.2 million? How much common stock will the firm have to issue? $million (Round to two decimal places.)