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ABC Corporation has 14 million shares of common stock outstanding, 900,000 shares of 8 percent preferred stock outstanding and 220,000 semiannual bonds outstanding with coupon rate of 12% and par value of $1,000 each. The common stock currently sells for $42 per share and has a beta of 1.20, the preferred stock currently sells for $80 per share, and the bonds have 17 years to maturity and sell for 119.92 percent of par. The expected return on the market portfolio is 14 percent, T-bills are yielding 6 percent, and the firm's tax rate is 20 percent. What discount rate should the firm apply to a new project's cash flows if the project has the same risk as the firm's typical project?
| Cost of equity = | ||||||
| Risk free rate +(market rate - risk free rate)*beta | 15.60% | |||||
| 6%+(14%-6%)*1.2 | ||||||
| Cost of debt = | ||||||
| we have to use financial calculator to solve this | ||||||
| put in calculator- | ||||||
| FV | 1000 | |||||
| PV | -1199.2 | |||||
| PMT | 1000*12%/2 | 60 | ||||
| N | 17*2 | 34 | ||||
| Compute I | 4.80% | |||||
| Post tax cost of debt = | ||||||
| 4.8%*(1-20%) | 3.84% | |||||
| Cost of preferred stock | ||||||
| annual dividend / Price today | 10.00% | |||||
| 8/80 | ||||||
| Computation of WACC | ||||||
| Source | Value | weight | cost | weight *cost | ||
| Debt | 263824000 | 220000*1000*119.92% | 30.97% | 3.84% | 1.19% | |
| equity | 588000000 | 14mil*42 | 69.03% | 15.60% | 10.77% | |
| Preferred stock | 72000000 | 900,000*80 | 8.45% | 10.00% | 0.85% | |
| 851824000 | 12.80% | |||||
| WACC = | 12.80% | |||||
| answer = | 12.80% |