A stock will pay a dividend of $9 at the end of the year. It sells today for $101 and its dividends are expected grow at a rate of 10%. What is the implied rate of return on this stock

Ummit record company is negotiating with two banks for a $157,000 loan. fidelity bank requires a compensating balance of 24 percent, discounts the loan, and wants to be paid back in four quarterly payments. southwest bank requires a compensating balance of 12 percent, does not discount the loan, but wants to be paid back in 12 monthly installments. the stated rate for both banks is 9 percent. compensating balances will be subtracted from the $157,000 in determining the available funds in part a. a-1. calculate the effective interest rate for fidelity bank and southwest bank. (do not round intermediate calculations. input your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) a-2. which loan should summit accept? southwest bank fidelity bank b. recompute the effective cost of interest, assuming that summit ordinarily maintains $37,680 at each bank in deposits that will serve as compensating balances

Vintage fun reproduces oldminusfashioned style roller skates and skateboards. the annual production and sales of roller skates is 950 units, while 1,750 skateboards are produced and sold. the company has traditionally used direct labor hours to allocate its overhead to products. roller skates require 2.5 direct labor hours per unit, while skateboards require 1.25 direct labor hours per unit. the total estimated overhead for the period is $114,300. the company is looking at the possibility of changing to an activityminusbased costing system for its products. if the company used an activityminusbased costing system, it would have the following three activity cost pools: the overhead cost per skateboard using the traditional costing system would be closest to: a. $9.31. b. $65.31. c. $25.05. your answer is not correct.d.

Burke enterprises is considering a machine costing $30 billion that will result in initial after-tax cash savings of $3.7 billion at the end of the first year, and these savings will grow at a rate of 2 percent per year for 11 years. after 11 years, the company can sell the parts for $5 billion. burke has a target debt/equity ratio of 1.2, a beta of 1.79. you estimate that the return on the market is 7.5% and t-bills are currently yielding 2.5%. burke has two issuances of bonds outstanding. the first has 200,000 bonds trading at 98% of par, with coupons of 5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 5 years. the second has 500,000 bonds trading at par, with coupons of 7.5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 12 years. kate, the ceo, usually applies an adjustment factor to the discount rate of +2 for such highly innovative projects. should the company take on the project?