PLEASE HELP- I REALLY NEED HELP... QUESTION IS BELOW

ACME Inc. is a multinational conglomerate corporation providing a wide range of goods and services to its customers. As part of its budgeting process for the next year, it has several projects under consideration so it must decide which projects should receive capital budgeting investment funds for this year. As part of the financial analysis department, you have been given several projects to evaluate. However, before you can determine the appropriate valuations of these projects, you need to determine the weighted average cost of capital for the firm since it is used as a threshold of acceptability for projects. Remember that management has a preference in using the market values of the firms capital structure and believes it current structure (target weight/market weight) is optimal. Market Values of Capital 1. The company has 60,000 bonds with a 30-year life outstanding, with 15 years until maturity. The bonds carry a 10 percent semi-annual coupon, and are currently selling for $874.78. 2. You also have 100,000 shares of $100 par, 9% dividend perpetual preferred stock outstanding. The current market price is $90.00. 3. The company has 5 million shares of common stock outstanding with a currently price of $17.00 per share. The stock exhibits a constant growth rate of 10 percent. The last dividend (D0) was $.65. 4. The risk-free rate is currently 6 percent, and the rate of return on the stock market as a whole is 13 percent. Your stocks beta is 1.22. 5. Your firm only uses bonds for long-term financing. 6. Your firms federal + state marginal tax rate is 40%. (Ignore any carryforward implications) Depreciation Schedule Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) Ownership Year 5-Year Investment Class Depreciation Schedule 1 20% 2 32% 3 19% 4 12% 5 11% 6 6% Total = 100%

QUESTION

Cost of Components of Capital: (10% of total grade) Find the costs of the individual capital components: long-term debt (before tax and after tax) preferred stock average cost of equity (average of CAPM & Gordon Growth Model/Constant Growth Model)