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Deep Mines has 43,800 shares of common stock outstanding with a beta of 1.54 and a market price of $51 per share. There are 10,000 shares of 7 percent preferred stock outstanding with a stated value of $100 per share and a market value of $83 per share. The 8 percent semiannual bonds have a face value of $1,000 and are selling at 96 percent of par. There are 5,000 bonds outstanding that mature in 13 years. The market risk premium is 7.5 percent, T-bills are yielding 3.6 percent, and the tax rate is 21 percent. What discount rate should the firm apply to a new project’s cash flows if the project has the same risk as the company’s typical project?

The Market Outlet is an all-equity financed firm with a beta of 1.08 and a cost of equity of 12.58 percent. The risk-free rate of return is 3.6 percent. What discount rate should the firm assign to a new project that has a beta of 1.22?

Xu Salon has a line of credit of $150,000 with an interest rate of 1.625 percent per quarter. The credit line requires that 2.25 percent of the unused portion of the credit line be deposited in a non-interest-bearing account as a compensating balance. Xu Salon’s short-term investments are earning .35 percent per quarter. If the line of credit goes unused all year, what is the effective annual interest rate on this arrangement? Assume any funds borrowed or invested use compound interest.

You own a portfolio equally invested in a risk-free asset and two different stocks. One of the stocks has a beta of 1.32. The total portfolio is equally as risky as the market. What is the beta of the second stock?

A proposed project has an initial cost of $74,200 and cash inflows of $23,900, $34,700, and $40,200 for Years 1 through 3, respectively. The required rate of return is 15.2 percent. Based on IRR, should this project be accepted? Why or why not?

Miller Stores has an overall beta of 1.38 and a cost of equity of 12.7 percent for the company overall. The firm is all-equity financed. Division A within the firm has an estimated beta of 1.52 and is the riskiest of all of the company’s operations. What is an appropriate cost of capital for Division A if the market risk premium is 7.4 percent?

Project A has cash flows of −$50,000, $49,400, $27,200, and $24,500 for Years 0 to 3, respectively. Project B has an initial cost of $50,000 and an annual cash inflow of $18,500 for four years. These are mutually exclusive projects. What is the crossover rate?

An investment that provides annual cash flows of $20,100 for 8 years costs $87,500 today. At what rate would you be indifferent between accepting the investment and rejecting it?

Gifts For All has projected sales for next year of: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Sales $ 22,800 $ 25,000 $ 30,100 $ 39,300 Purchases are equal to 58 percent of next quarter’s sales. Each month has 30 days, the accounts receivable period is 29 days, and the accounts payable period is 32 days. How much will the company pay suppliers in the third quarter?

Bretz Baskets would like to offer a special product to its best customers. However, the firm wants to limit its maximum potential loss on this product to the firm’s initial investment. The fixed costs are estimated at $3,600, the depreciation expense is $870, and the contribution margin per unit is $6.89. What is the minimum number of units the firm should pre-sell to ensure its potential loss does not exceed the desired level?