WACC Estimation The following table gives the balance sheet for Travellers Inn Inc. (TII), a company that was formed by merging a number of regional motel chains. Travellers Inn (Millions of Dollars) Cash Accounts $ 10 Accounts payable 20 Accruals receivable Inventories 20 Short-term debt Current assets $ 50 Current liabilities Net fixed assets 50 Long-term debt Total assets Preferred stock (50,000 shares) Common equity Common stock (3,800,000 shares) Retained earnings $100 Total common equity Total liabilities and equity $ 10 15 $ 25 30 5 $ 10 30 $ 40 $100 The following facts also apply to TII: 1. The long-term debt consists of 29,412 bonds, each having a 25-year maturity, semiannual payments, a coupon rate of 7.8%, and a face value of $1,000. Currently, these bonds provide investors with a yield to maturity of 11.8%. If new bonds were sold, they would have an 11.8% yield to maturity. 2. TII's perpetual preferred stock has a $100 par value, pays a quarterly dividend per share of $3, and has a yield to investors of 12%. New perpetual preferred stock would have to provide the same yield to investors, and the company would incur a 3.05% flotation cost to sell it. 3. The company has 3.8 million shares of common stock outstanding, a price per share = P0 = $20, dividend per share = Do = $1, and earnings per share = EPSO return on equity (ROE) is expected to be 12%. 4. The stock has a beta of 1.6. The T-bond rate is 4%, and RPM is estimated to be 5%. = $5. The 5. TII's financial vice president recently polled some pension fund investment managers who hold TII's securities regarding what minimum rate of return on TII's common would make them willing to buy the common rather than TII bonds, given that the bonds yielded 11.8%. The responses suggested a risk premium over TII bonds of 4 percentage points. 6. TII is in the 25% federal-plus-state tax bracket.