An all-equity company has common and preferred shares. There are 250,000 common shares outstanding with a price of $51.10 per share and with an expectation to continue to provide a dividend of $5.30 per share. There are 50,000 preferred shares outstanding, with a 5.74% dividend, $100 par value per share, and $80.50 market value per share. Given this information, what is the company's WACC? Question options: 9.12% 9.36% 9.60% 9.84% 10.08%
Cost of equity = | 5.3/51.1 | ||||
Annual dividend /Price today | |||||
10.37% | |||||
Cost of preferred stock = | 100*5.74%/80.5 | ||||
Annual dividend /Price today | |||||
7.13% | |||||
i | ii | iii | iv=ii*iii | ||
Source | Value | Weight | cost | WACC | |
Equity | 12775000 | 76.04% | 10.37% | 7.89% | |
Preferred share | 4025000 | 23.96% | 7.13% | 1.71% | |
16800000 | 9.60% | ||||
Answer = | 9.60% | ||||
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