A firm's current profits are $550,000. These profits are expected to grow indefinitely at a constant annual rate of 3 percent. If the firm's opportunity cost of funds is 5 percent, determine the value of the firm: Instructions: Enter your responses rounded to two decimal places. a. The instant before it pays out current profits as dividends. $18.33 million

Why in the long run the rate of return on investments reflects the riskiness of those investments?

A company reports the following: Net income $758,420 Preferred dividends $56,180 Shares of common stock outstanding 48,000 Market price per share of common stock $42.43 Calculate the company's earnings per share on common stock. Round your answer to the nearest cent. 2$

Edward the entrepreneur takes 2 hours to cut a lawn, and he cuts 1,000 lawns per year. He uses solar-powered equipment (truck and mower) that will last forever- and can be sold at any time for $40,000. Edward could earn $11 per hour as a pedicurist. The interest rate is 10 percent. Given his current output level, compute his average cost of cutting lawns. $20 $24 $22 $28 $26

Calculate profit given that corporate tax is $1000, dividend is $3300 and the retained earnings is $600

Hua Xing runs a lawn care service. Buying an additional riding lawn mower will cost $3,000 but would allow her firm to earn $1,000 of additional revenue each year for the next four years. She expects marginal efficiency of capital to be at least 10%. Which statement is an accurate description of this investment opportunity? a) Hua Xing should make the investment because turning $3,000 into $4,000 provides a rate of return of 33%. b) Hua Xing should not make the investment because it has a negative net present value. c) Hua Xing should not make the investment because it provides only a 5.16% return on investment. Od) Hua Xing should make the investment because the internal rate of return exceeds 10%.