QUESTION 2

Assume that capital markets areperfect. A firm finances its operations via $60 million in stock with a required return of 15% and $40 million in bonds at 8%. Assume the company decides to issue an additional $10 million bonds and use the proceeds to retire $10 million worth of equity.

(a) what would happen to the firm's WACC?

(b) What would happen to the required return on the company's stock?

QUESTION 5

You are considering an investment in a project that requires an initial outlay of $350,000 and will produce after-tax cash flows of $50,000 per year for the next 10 years. Your firm uses 40 percent debt and 60 percent equity in its financing. The after-tax costs of debt and equity are 6% and 11%, respectively.

a. What is the firm's WACC?

b. What is the project NPV? Should the project be accepted?

QUESTION 6

Divided Furniture Inc. has 11,000 bonds outstanding with a market price of $104 per bond. The firm also has 35,000 preferred shares outstanding and 45,000 common shares outstanding. Preferred stock and common stock are both expected to pay a year-end dividend of $2.20 per share. The current price per share of common stock is $36 per share. Preferred stock is priced at $52 per share. Preferred dividends do not grow and common stock dividends are expected to grow at a rate of 4 percent. The firm's tax rate is 40 percent. If the yield on the firm's bonds is 8%, what is the firm's weighted average cost of capital?