You are employed by CGT, a Fortune 500 firm that is a major producer of chemicals and plastic goods: plastic grocery bags, styrofoam cups, and fertilizers. You are on the corporate staff as an assistant to the Vice-President of Finance. Your boss has asked you to estimate the weighted average cost of capital for the company. Following are balance sheets and some information about CGT. Assets Current assets $28,000,000 Net plant, property, and equipment Total Assets $109.000.000 $81.000.000 Liabilities and Equity Accounts payable $10,000,000 Accruals $9.000.000 Current liabilities $19,000,000 Long term debt (30,000 bonds, S1,000 face value) $30.000.000 Total liabilities S49,000,000 Preferred stock (100,000 shares, 10% S100 par value) $10,000,000 Common stock (10,000,000 shares) $20,000,000 Retained earnings $30.000.000 Total common equity $50.000.000 Total liabilities and equity $109,000,000 You check The Wall Street Journal and see that CGT stock is currently selling for $7.50 per share and that CGT bonds are selling for $1,167.40 per bond. These bonds have a 8.25% annual coupon rate, with semi-annual payments. The bonds mature in ten years. The last dividend paid to the common stock was $0.37, and dividend are expected to grow at an annual rate of 7%. For the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium approach, the firm uses a risk premium of 6.4%. The current price of the firm's preferred stock is $114. The beta for your company is approximately equal to 1.1. The yield on a 20- year Treasury bond is 5.5%. The expected return on the stock market is 11.5%. CGT is in the 40 percent tax bracket Required a Estimate the after-tax cost of debt and cost of preferred stock for CGT (6 marks) b. Using different approaches, estimate the cost of equity for CGT (10 marks) c Calculate the market value weighted average cost of capital and the book value weighted average cost of capital for CGT and comment briefly on any difference between the two values. (Use the average of the different approaches for calculating the cost of equity.) (15 marks) d. Name three factors that might influence the cost of capital and evaluate their impact on the cost of capital. (4 marks)