on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. As the chief financial officer of a young company with lots of investment opportunities‚ Eco’s CFO closely monitor the firm’s cost of capital. The CFO keeps tabs on each of the individual costs of Eco’s three main financing sources: long-term debt‚ preferred stock‚ and common stock. The target capital structure for Eco is given by the weights in the following table: Source of capital Weight Long-term debt 30% Preferred stock 20% Common stock equity 50% Total
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concerning common stock and the investment banking process is NOT CORRECT? (a) The preemptive right gives each existing common stockholder the right to purchase his or her proportionate share of a new stock issue. (b) If a firm sells 1‚000‚000 new shares of Class B stock‚ the transaction occurs in the primary market. (c) Listing a large firm’s stock is often considered to be beneficial to stockholders because the increases in liquidity and reputation probably outweigh the additional costs to the
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THE COST OF CAPITAL (Difficulty: E = Easy‚ M = Medium‚ and T = Tough) Multiple Choice: Problems Easy: Cost of common stock Answer: d Diff: E [i]. Bouchard Company ’s stock sells for $20 per share‚ its last dividend (D0) was $1.00‚ and its growth rate is a constant 6 percent. What is its cost of common stock‚ rs? a. 5.0% b. 5.3% c. 11.0% d. 11.3% e. 11.6% Cost of common stock Answer: b Diff: E [ii]. Your company ’s stock sells for
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29) All of the following features may be characteristic of preferred stock EXCEPT A) callable. B) no maturity date. C) tax-deductible dividends. D) convertible. Answer: c If a firm has class A and class B common stock outstanding‚ it means that A) each class receives a different dividend. B) the par value of each class is different. C) the dividend paid to one of the classes is tax deductible by the corporation
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shares Aspin Corporation’s charter authorizes issuance of 2‚000‚000 shares of common stock. Currently‚ 1‚400‚000 shares are outstanding‚ and 100‚000 shares are being held as treasury stock. The firm wishes to raise $48‚000‚000 for a plant expansion. Discussions with its investment bankers indicate that the sale of new common stock will net the firm $60 per share. a. What is the maximum number of new shares of common stock that the firm can sell without receiving further authorization from shareholders
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institutions such as banks deals in short term loan in different forms such as treasury bills and commercial bills. Short term loan means the duration of maturity is of one year or less than that. We need to be clear that equity instrument i.e common or preferred stocks both are not traded in money market. Similarly‚ we need to keep one thing in mind that money market is a intangible market where we deal over the phone or company‚ we just don’t enter the building of a company. Likewise‚ Capital market
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PREFERRED STOCK VERSUS COMMON STOCK The primary advantage to an investor of holding preferred stock compared with common stock is that the preferred stock return is somewhat more predictable (more certain). The issuing company will generally make a real effort to try to avoid defaulting on the preferred stock dividend. Since the return to preferred stock is reasonably well defined and since the preferred stockholders precede the common stockholders (the preferred dividends are paid before the
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Intermediate Acct410B Research Paper Common and Preferred Stock How do Corporations raise capital? All of the large corporations could not have grown to their present size without being able to find innovative ways to raise capital to finance ultimate expansion. There are many ways this can be accomplished‚ but this review will take a look at just two ways: the issuance of Preferred Stock and selling of Common Stock. What exactly is a stock‚ anyway? Basically‚ stock is ownership‚ simple as that.
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Valuation of Common Stock Ashok Banerjee Common (Equity) Stocks • Because common stock never matures‚ today’s value is the present value of an infinite stream of cash flows (i.e.‚ dividend). • But dividends are not fixed. • Not knowing the amount of the dividends—or even if there will be future dividends— makes it difficult to determine the value of common stock. • So what are we to do? Valuation Models • Dividend Valuation Model (DVM): – Constant dividend: Let D be the constant DPS: The required
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to the company is 50%. Compute the cost of debt capital. b) Y Ltd. issues Rs.50‚000 8% debentures at a premium of 10%. The tax rate applicable to the company is 60%. Compute cost of debt capital. c) A Ltd. issues Rs.50‚000 8% debentures at a discount of 5%. The tax rate is 50%‚ Compute the cost of debt capital. d) B Ltd. issues Rs.1‚00‚000 9% debentures at a premium of 10%. The costs of floatation are 2%. The tax rate applicable is 60%. Compute cost of debt-capital. -D 2. A company
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