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Ronald was recently hired by Highland Equipment Inc. as a junior budget analyst. He is working for the Venture Capital Division and has been given for capital budgeting projects to evaluate. He must give his analysis and recommendation to the capital budgeting committee. Ronald has a B.S. in accounting from CWU (2016) and passed the CPA exam (2018). He has been in public accounting for several years. During that time he earned an MBA from Seattle U. He would like to be the CFO of a company someday--maybe Highland Equipment Inc.-- and this is an opportunity to get onto that career track and to prove his ability. As Ronald looks over the financial data collected, he is trying to make sense of it all. He already has the most difficult part of the analysis complete -- the estimation of cash flows. Through some internet research and application of finance theory, he has also determined the firm's beta. Here is the information that Ronald has accumulated so far: The Capital Budgeting Projects He must choose one of the four capital budgeting projects listed below: Table 1 shows the expected after-tax operating cash flows for each project. All projects are expected to have a 4 year life. The projects differ in size (the cost of the initial investment), and their cash flow patterns are different. They also differ in risk as indicated in the above table. The capital budget is $20 million and the projects are mutually exclusive. Capital Structures Highland Equipment Inc. has the following capital structure, which is considered to be optimal: Cost of Capital Ronald knows that in order to evaluate the projects he will have to determine the cost of capital for each of them. He has been given the following data, which he believes will be relevant to his task. (1)The firm's tax rate is 35%. (2) Highland Equipment Inc. has issued a 12% semi-annual coupon bond with 5 years term to maturity. The current trading price is $1,040. (3) The firm has issued some preferred stock which pays an annual 11% dividend of $100 par value, and the current market price is $106. (4) The firm's stock is currently selling for $95 per share. Its last dividend (D0) was $5, and dividends are expected to grow at a constant rate of 7\%. The current risk free return offered by Treasury security is 1.5\%, and the market portfolio's return is 9.5%. Highland Equipment Inc. has a beta of 1.4. For the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium approach, the firm uses a risk premium of 3%. (5) The firm adjusts its project WACC for risk by adding 2% to the overall WACC for high-risk projects and subtracting 2% for low-risk projects. 1. What is the firm's cost of debt? 2. What is the cost of preferred stock for Highland Equipment Inc.? 3. Cost of common equity (1) What is the estimated cost of common equity using the CAPM approach? (2) What is the estimated cost of common equity using the DCF approach? (3) What is the estimated cost of common equity using the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium approach? (4) What is the final estimate for rs ? 4. What is Highland Equipment Inc.'s overall WACC? 5. Do you think the firm should use the single overall WACC as the hurdle rate for each of its projects? Explain. 6. What is the WACC for each project? Place your numerical solutions in Table 2
