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LuckyStar Corporation has a target capital structure consisting of 20% debt, 20% preferred stock, and 60% common equity. Assume the firm has insufficient retained earnings to fund the equity portion of its capital budget. It has 20-year, 12% semiannual coupon bonds that sell at their par value of $1,000. The firm could sell, at par, $100 preferred stock that pays a 12% annual dividend, but flotation costs of 5% would be incurred. LuckyStar's beta is 1.2, the risk-free rate is 10%, and the market risk premium is 5%. LuckyStar is a constant growth firm that just paid a dividend of $2.00, sells for $27.00 per share, and has a growth rate of 8%. The firm's policy is to use a risk premium of 4% when using the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium method to find rs. Flotation costs on new common stock total 10%, and the firm's marginal tax rate is 40%.

Cost of debt

Problem 1. What is LuckyStar's component cost of debt?

a. 10.0%

b. 9.1%

c. 8.6%

d. 8.0%

e. 7.2%

Problem 2. What is LuckyStar's cost of preferred stock?

a. 10.0%

b. 11.0%

c. 12.0%

d. 12.6%

e. 13.2%

Problem 3. What is LuckyStar's cost of retained earnings using the CAPM approach?

a. 13.6%

b. 14.1%

c. 16.0%

d. 16.6%

e. 16.9%

Problem 4. What is the firm's cost of retained earnings using the DCF approach?

a. 13.6%

b. 14.1%

c. 16.0%

Problem 5. What is LuckyStar's cost of retained earnings using the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium approach?

a. 13.6%

b. 14.1%

c. 16.0%

d. 16.6%

e. 16.9%

Problem 6. What is LuckyStar's WACC, if the firm has insufficient retained earnings to fund the equity portion of its capital budget?

a. 13.6%

b. 14.1%

c. 16.0%

d. 16.6%

e. 16.9%