Hastings Corporation is interested in acquiring Vandell Corporation. Vandell has 1 million shares outstanding and a target capital structure consisting of 30% debt; its beta is 1.4 (given its target capital structure). Vandell has $10.82 million in debt that trades at par and pays an 8% interest rate. Vandells free cash flow FCF0 is $2 million per year and is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5% a year. Vandell pays a 40% combined federal and state tax rate. The risk-free rate of interest is 5% and the market risk premium is 6%. Hastingss first step is to estimate the current intrinsic value of Vandell.

1. What are Vandells cost of equity and weighted average cost of capital?
2. What is Vandells intrinsic value of operations? (Hint: Use the free cash flow corporate valuation model from Chapter 7.)
3. What is the current intrinsic value of Vandells stock