Problem 11.24

The Imaginary Products Co. currently has debt with a market value of $200 million outstanding. The debt consists of 9 percent coupon bonds (semiannual coupon payments) which have a maturity of 15 years and are currently priced at $1,291.67 per bond. The firm also has an issue of 2 million preferred shares outstanding with a market price of $19. The preferred shares pay an annual dividend of $1.20. Imaginary also has 14 million shares of common stock outstanding with a price of $20.00 per share. The firm is expected to pay a $2.20 common dividend one year from today, and that dividend is expected to increase by 5 percent per year forever. If Imaginary is subject to a 40 percent marginal tax rate, then what is the firms weighted average cost of capital?

A. Calculate the Weights for debt, common equity, and preferred equity. (Round intermediate calculations to 4 decimal places, e.g. 1.2514 and final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25%.)

Debt _________%

Preferred equity_______%

Common equity______%

B. Cost of deb ______%

C. Cost of common equity _____%

D. WACC ________%