Question 9 Sorensen Systems Inc. is expected to pay a $2.50 dividend at year end
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Question 9
Sorensen Systems Inc. is expected to pay a $2.50 dividend at year end (D1 = $2.50), the dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5.50% a year, and the common stock currently sells for $52.50 a share. The before-tax cost of debt is 7.50%, and the tax rate is 40%. The target capital structure consists of 45% debt and 55% common equity. What is the company's WACC if all the equity used is from retained earnings?
Answer
7.07%
7.36%
7.67%
7.98%
8.29%
Question 10
You were hired as a consultant to Quigley Company, whose target capital structure is 35% debt, 10% preferred, and 55% common equity. The interest rate on new debt is 6.50%, the yield on the preferred is 6.00%, the cost of common from retained earnings is 11.25%, and the tax rate is 40%. The firm will not be issuing any new common stock. What is Quigley's WACC?
Answer
8.15%
8.48%
8.82%
9.17%
9.54%
Question 11
Conflicts between two mutually exclusive projects occasionally occur, where the NPV method ranks one project higher but the IRR method ranks the other one first. In theory, such conflicts should be resolved in favor of the project with the higher positive IRR.
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True
False
Question 12
One advantage of the payback method for evaluating potential investments is that it provides information about a project's liquidity and risk.
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True
False
Question 13
The regular payback method is deficient in that it does not take account of cash flows beyond the payback period. The discounted payback method corrects this fault.
Answer
True
False
Sorensen Systems Inc. is expected to pay a $2.50 dividend at year end (D1 = $2.50), the dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5.50% a year, and the common stock currently sells for $52.50 a share. The before-tax cost of debt is 7.50%, and the tax rate is 40%. The target capital structure consists of 45% debt and 55% common equity. What is the company's WACC if all the equity used is from retained earnings?
Answer
7.07%
7.36%
7.67%
7.98%
8.29%
Explanation / Answer
Question 9: 7.98% Question 10: 9.54% Question 11: TRUE Question 12: TRUE Question 13: FALSE