The company estimates that it can issue debt at a rate of rd = 11%, and its tax rate is 40%. it can issue preferred stock that pays a constant dividend of $4 per year at $47 per share. also, its common stock currently sells for $30 per share; the next expected dividend, d1, is $3.75; 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.1. what is the cost of each of the capital components? round your answers to two decimal places. a. cost of debt %b. cost of preferred stock %c. cost of retained earnings %2. what is adams' wacc? round your answer to two decimal places.

Ajax corp's sales last year were $435,000, its operating costs were $362,500, and its interest charges were $12,500. what was the firm's times-interest-earned (tie) ratio? a. 4.72b. 4.97c. 5.23d. 5.51e. 5.80

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60

Abeverage company puts game pieces under the caps of its drinks and claims that one in six game pieces wins a prize. the official rules of the contest state that the odds of winning a prize are is the claim "one in six game pieces wins a prize" correct? why or why not? 1: 6.