he Neal Company wants to estimate next year's return on equity (ROE) under different financial leverage ratios. Neal's total capital is $18 million, it currently uses only common equity, it has no future plans to use preferred stock in its capital structure, and its federal-plus-state tax rate is 40%. The CFO has estimated next year's EBIT for three possible states of the world: $4.2 million with a 0.2 probability, $2.7 million with a 0.5 probability, and $0.8 million with a 0.3 probability. Calculate Neal's expected ROE, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation for each of the following debt-to-capital ratios. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places at the end of the calculations. Debt/Capital ratio is 0. RÔE =  %σ =  %CV = Debt/Capital ratio is 10%, interest rate is 9%. RÔE =  %σ =  %CV = Debt/Capital ratio is 50%, interest rate is 11%. RÔE =  %σ =  %CV = Debt/Capital ratio is 60%, interest rate is 14%. RÔE =  %σ =  %CV =

Adamson Corporation is considering four average-risk projects with the following costs and rates of return: Project Cost Expected Rate of Return 1 $2,000 16.00% 2 3 4 3,000 5,000 2,000 15.00 13.75 12.50 The company estimates that it can issue debt at a rate of rd = 9%, and its tax rate is 25%. It can issue preferred stock that pays a constant dividend of $4.00 per year at $56.00 per share. Also, its common stock currently sells for $49.00 per share; the next expected dividend, D₁, is $5.75; and the dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5% per year. The target capital structure consists of 75% common stock, 15% debt, and 10% preferred stock. a. What is the cost of each of the capital components? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places. % Cost of debt: Cost of preferred stock: Cost of retained earnings: % % b. What is Adamson's WACC? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places. % c. Only projects…

An unlevered firm has a value of $900 million. An otherwise identical but levered firm has $180 million in debt at a 4% interest rate, which is its pre-tax cost of debt. Its unlevered cost of equity is 12%. No growth is expected. Assuming the federal-plus-state corporate tax rate is 25%, use the MM model with corporate taxes to determine the value of the levered firm. Enter your answer in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55. Round your answer to the nearest whole number. S million

Globex Corp. is an all-equity firm, and it has a beta of 1. It is considering changing its capital structure to 60% equity and 40% debt. The firm's cost of debt will be 6%, and it will face a tax rate of 25%. What will Globex Corp.'s beta be if it decides to make this change in its capital structure? Now consider the case of another company: US Robotics Inc. has a current capital structure of 30% debt and 70% equity. Its curre is 25%. It currently has a levered beta of 1.15. The risk-free rate is 3.5%, and the risk 1.65 1.58 1.80 1.50 e-tax cost of debt is 6%, and its tax rate m on the market is 7.5%. US Robotics