Floral Fantasia has annual sales of $61,888, depreciation of $8,100, interest paid of $970, cost of goods sold of $29,400, taxes of $4,918, and dividends paid of $4,810. The firm has total assets of $105,300 and total debt of $51,600. The firm does not want any additional external equity financing and also wants to maintain a constant debt-equity ratio. What rate of growth can this firm maintain?

Labrador technologies Inc. plans to become public soon. The board of directors would like to know the value of common equity and have asked for your opinion. The firm has $1,249,917 in preferred equity and the market value of its outstanding debt equals $2,049,396. The WACC for this firm is estimated to be 8.92%. For this example assume the current assets are zero. Use the DCF valuation model with the expected FCFs shown below; year 1 represents one year from today and so on. The company expects to grow at a 3.0% rate after Year 5. Rounding to the nearest penny, what is the value of common equity? Free Cash Period Flow Year 1 $1,370,274 Year 2 $1,761,479 Year 3 $1,909,652 Year 4 $2,361,090 Year 5 $2,744,645

Beranek Corp has $800,000 of assets (which equal total invested capital), and it uses no debt—it is financed only with common equity. The new CFO wants to employ enough debt to raise the total debt to total capital ratio to 40%, using the proceeds from borrowing to buy back common stock at its book value. How much must the firm borrow to achieve the target debt ratio?   a. $571,429     b. $320,000     c. $1,120,000     d. $160,000     e. $480,000

CoffeeCarts has a cost of equity of 15.1%, has an effective cost of debt of 3.8%, and is financed 69% with equity and 31% with debt. What is this firm's WACC? CoffeeCarts's WACC is __ % ? (Round to one decimal place.)