WACC The Patrick Company’s year-end balance sheet is shown below. Its cost of common equity is 16%, its before-tax cost of debt is 13%, and its marginal tax rate is 40%. Assume that the firm’s long-term debt sells at par value. The firm’s total debt, which is the sum of the company’s short-term debt and long-term debt, equals $1,152. The firm has 576 shares of common stock outstanding that sell for $4.00 per share. Calculate Patrick’s WACC usingmarket-value weights. Assets   Liabilities and Equity   Cash $130 Accounts payable and accruals $10 Accounts receivable 240 Short term debt 52 Inventories 360 Long term debt 1,100 Plant and equipment, net 2,160 Common equity 1,1728 Total assets $2,890 Total liabilities and equity $2,890

Interest versus dividend expense Michaels Corporation expects earnings before interest and taxes to be $43,000 for the current period. Assuming a flat ordinary tax rate of 21%, compute the firm's earnings after taxes and earnings available for common stockholders (earnings after taxes and preferred stock dividends, if any) under the following conditions: a. The firm pays $12,100 in interest. b. The firm pays $12,100 in preferred stock dividends. a. Complete the fragment of Michaels Corporation's income statement below to compute the firm's earnings after taxes and earnings available for common stockholders under condition (a). (Round to the nearest dollar.) EBIT Less: Interest expense Earnings before taxes Less: Taxes (21%) Earnings after taxes Less: Preferred dividends Earnings available for common stockholders $ LA $ $ $

The Five and Dime Store has a cost of equity of 14.8 percent, a pretax cost of debt of 6.7 percent, and a tax rate of 21 percent. What is the firm's weighted average cost of capital if the debt-equity ratio is 467 Multiple Choice O O 10.10% 11.80% 11.53% 13.49% 14.93%

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