rue or False: It is free for a company to raise money through retained earnings, because retained earnings represent money that is left over after dividends are paid out to shareholders False True The current risk-free rate of return is 3.80% and the current market risk premium is 6.60%. Blue Hamster Manufacturing Inc, has a beta or 0.87. Using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) approach, Blue Hamster's cost of equity is Fuzzy Button Clothing Company is closely held and, as a result, cannot generate reliable inputs for the CAPM approach. FuzzyButton's bonds yeld 11.50%, and the firm's analysts estimate that the firm's risk premium on its stock relative to its bonds is 4.50%. Using the bond-yield-plus-risk premium approach, the firm's cost of equity is The stock of Cute Camel Woodcraft Company is currently selling for $32.45, and the firm expects its dividend to be $2.35 in one year. Analysts project the firm's growth rate to be constant at 7.20%. Using the discounted cash flow (DCF) approach, Cute Camel's cost of equity is estimated to be