The Hastings Sugar Corporation has the following pattern of net income each year, and associated capital expenditure projects. The firm can earn a higher return on the projects than the stockholders could earn if the funds were paid out in the form of dividends. Year 1 2 3 4 5 Net Income $11 million 24 million 9 million 19 million 23 million Profitable Capital Total cash dividends Expenditure The Hastings Corporation has 2 million shares outstanding. (The following questions are separate from each other). a. If the marginal principle of retained earnings is applied, how much in total cash dividends will be paid over the five years? (Enter your answer in millions.) $ 8 million 11 million 7 million 7 million 8 million Answer is complete and correct. $ 45 million Total cash dividends b. If the firm simply uses a payout ratio of 40 percent of net income, how much in total cash dividends will be paid? (Enter your answer in millions and round your answer to 1 decimal place.) ✔ Answer is complete and correct. 34.4 million c. If the firm pays a 10 percent stock dividend in years 2 through 5, and also pays a cash dividend of $3.40 per share for each of the five years, how much in total dividends will be paid? Answer is complete but not entirely correct.

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GTB, Incorporated has a 21 percent tax rate and has $100 million in assets, currently financed entirely with equity. Equity is worth $7 per share, and book value of equity is equal to market value of equity. Also, let's assume that the firm's expected values for EBIT depend upon which state of the economy occurs this year, with the possible values of EBIT and their associated probabilities as shown below: State Probability of state Expected EBIT in state Pessimistic 0.45 $ 5 million Standard deviation in EPS The firm is considering switching to a 40-percent-debt capital structure and has determined that it would have to pay a 12 percent yield on perpetual debt in either event. What will be the standard deviation in EPS if it switches to the proposed capital structure and can take full advantage of the debt interest tax shields? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. Optimistic 0.55 $19 million %

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You are given the financial information for the Unic Company: Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) = $126.58 Corporate tax rate (TC) = 0.21 Debt (D) = $500 Unlevered cost of capital (RU) = 0.20 The cost of debt capital is 10 percent. Question: Determine the value of Unic Company equity? Determine the cost of equity capital for Unic Company? Determine the WACC for Unic Company?

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Anle Corporation has a current price of $16, is expected to pay a dividend of $1 in one year, and its expected price right after paying that dividend is $24. a. What is Anle's expected dividend yield? b. What is Anle's expected capital gain rate? c. What is Anle's equity cost of capital?