You try to evaluate an investment project for a company. A firm uses $38 million of debt and $15 million of preferred stock. The current market price of common stock is $20 with 4,125,000 shares outstanding, which it has used recently to finance in a number of its recent operating asset purchases. If the before-tax cost of debt is 8% and its cost of preferred stock is 10%. The risk free rate is assume to be 5%, while the market risk premium is 8%, with an above market level firm beta of 1.25 (slightly more volatile than the market). Assume the corporate tax rate for this firm is 35%. a. Based on the information given, compute the WACC for the company.
b. If an investment project generates a return of 11% and has similar risk level as the overall company, would you accept this project? Why or why not?

The digby's workforce complement will grow by 20% (rounded to the nearest person) next year. ignoring downsizing from automating, what would their total recruiting cost be? assume digby spends the same amount extra above the $1,000 recruiting base as they did last year. select: 1 $2,840,000 $3,408,000 $570,000 $475,000

If a firm plans to issue new stock, flotation costs (investment bankers' fees) should not be ignored. there are two approaches to use to account for flotation costs. the first approach is to add the sum of flotation costs for the debt, preferred, and common stock and add them to the initial investment cost. because the investment cost is increased, the project's expected return is reduced so it may not meet the firm's hurdle rate for acceptance of the project. the second approach involves adjusting the cost of common equity as follows: . the difference between the flotation-adjusted cost of equity and the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment represents the flotation cost adjustment. quantitative problem: barton industries expects next year's annual dividend, d1, to be $1.90 and it expects dividends to grow at a constant rate g = 4.3%. the firm's current common stock price, p0, is $22.00. if it needs to issue new common stock, the firm will encounter a 6% flotation cost, f. assume that the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment is 12% and the cost of old common equity is 11.5%. what is the flotation cost adjustment that must be added to its cost of retaine

Alaska king crab fishing in the 1960s and '70s was a dangerous but rich fishery. boats from as far away as california and japan braved the treacherous gulf of alaska crossing to reach the abundant king crab beds in cook inlet and bristol bay. suddenly, in the early 1980s, the fishery crashed due to over fishing. all crabbing in those areas ended. to this day, there is no crabbing in bristol bay or cook inlet. a. how would an economist explain the decline of the alaska king crab fishery