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Given the following information: Percent of capital structure: Preferred stock 2

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Question

Given the following information: Percent of capital structure:

Preferred stock 20 %

Common equity 40

Debt 40

Additional information:

Corporate tax rate 34 %

Dividend, preferred $ 8.50

Dividend, expected common $ 2.50

Price, preferred $ 105.00

Growth rate 7 %

Bond yield 9.5 %

Flotation cost, preferred $ 3.60

Price, common $ 75.00

Calculate the weighted average cost of capital for Digital Processing Inc. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Input your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)

Debt:

Perferred stock:

Common equity:

Weighted average cost of captial:

Explanation / Answer

After tax cost of debt = Yield [1-tax]

                  = 9.5[1-.34]

                   = 6.27%

cost of preferred stock = dividend /[price-flotation cost]

                      = 8.5/[105-3.6]

                      =8.5 /101.4

                      = .083826 or 8.3826%

cost of equity ={ dividend /[price-floatation cost]}+g

        = {2.5 /[75-0] }+ .07

          = .03333+.07

           = .103333 or 10.3333%

                               weighted average cost of capital = 8.32%

cost weight weighted average cost Debt 6.27 .40 6.27*.4= 2.508 preferred stock 8.3826 .20 8.3826*.20= 1.67652 common equity 10.3333 .40 10.3333*.4= 4.13332 weighted average cost of capital 8.32%
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