Cost of common stock equity ross textiles wishes to measure its cost of common stock equity. the firm's stock is currently selling for $70.67. the firm just recently paid a dividend of $4.00. the firm has been increasing dividends regularly. five years ago, the dividend was just $2.99. after underpricing and flotation costs, the firm expects to net $69.00 per share on a new issue. a. determine average annual dividend growth rate over the past 5 years. using that growth rate, what dividend would you expect the company to pay next year? b. determine the net proceeds, nn, that the firm will actually receive. c. using the constant-growth valuation model, determine the required return on the company's stock, r subscript s, which should equal the cost of retained earnings, r subscript r. d. using the constant-growth valuation model, determine the cost of new common stock, r subscript n.

1   all nations face the problem of scarcity because there are limited resources and unlimited wants. nations do not have enough factors of production to produce everything that their population wants. entrepreneurial resources initiate businesses to make new goods and services; labor resources produce goods and services.

2 there are four factors of production: natural resources, labor resources, capital resources, and entrepreneurial resources. natural resources are raw materials from nature that are used to produce goods. trees, water, and grains are natural resources. some natural resources, such as wheat and cattle, are renewable

3 wants

things that you do not need to have in order to survive, but would like to have

needs

things that you must have in order to survive

goods

physical products

services

tasks that a business perform for customers

resources

items that people can use to make or obtain what they need or want

determine

to settle or decide by choice of alternatives or possiblities

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lbc corporation makes and sells a product called product wz. each unit of product wz requires 4.1 hours of direct labor at the rate of $20.00 per direct labor-hour. management would like you to prepare a direct labor budget for june. the company plans to sell 28,000 units of product wz in june. the finished goods inventories o

the correct answer is d. wealthy colonists to take care of the less fortunate. hope this