the required rate of return on retained earnings, it If a firm cannot invest retained earnings to earn a rate of return should return those funds to its stockholders. less than The cost of equity using the CAPM approach greater than or equal to The current risk-free rate of return (TRF) is 3.86% while the market risk premium is 6.63%. The Jefferson Company has a beta of 0.92. Using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) approach, Jefferson's cost of equity is The cost of equity using the bond yield plus risk premium approach The Adams Company is closely held and, therefore, cannot generate reliable inputs with which to use the CAPM method for estimating a company's cost of internal equity. Adams's bonds yield 10.28%, and the firm's analysts estimate that the firm's risk premium on its stock over its bonds is 4.95%. Based on the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium approach, Adams's cost of internal equity is: O 15.23% O 16.75% O 18.28% O 19.04%