(14 points) A financial analyst determines that Cyclone Company has $54 million of interest bearing debt outstanding and 3,800,000 common shares outstanding at the end of 2019. She also estimates that Cyclone’s after-tax cost of debt is 6.30% and that its cost of equity using the capital asset pricing model is 9.72%. The company pays a $2.00 dividend and has a current stock price $45.60 per share. The company has a marginal income tax rate of 37%. Required: a. Compute the company's weighted average cost of capital. b. Assuming that Cyclone’s dividend will last into perpetuity what cost of equity capital is inferred by the current stock price? c. Assuming that the financial analyst has properly calculated the cost of equity capital and that Cyclone will pay a dividend of $2.70 next year what growth rate is implied by the current stock price?

Paying attention to the purpose of her speech, which questions can she eliminate? a. 1 and 2 b. 3 c. 2 and 4 d. 1-4

*will mark brainliest! * when a company spends resources (labor, money) to give customers "free" items, those costs are called a. investment costs b. economic costs c. scarcity costs d. opportunity costs answer asap!

Suppose that fizzo and pop hop are the only two firms that sell orange soda. the following payoff matrix shows the profit (in millions of dollars) each company will earn depending on whether or not it advertises: pop hopadvertise doesn’t advertisefizzo advertise 10, 10 18, 2doesn’t advertise 2, 18 11, 11for example, the upper right cell shows that if fizzo advertises and pop hop doesn't advertise, fizzo will make a profit of $18 million, and pop hop will make a profit of $2 million. assume this is a simultaneous game and that fizzo and pop hop are both profit-maximizing firms. if fizzo decides to advertise, it will earn a profit if pop hop advertises and a profit if pop hop does not advertise. if fizzo decides not to advertise, it will earn a profit if pop hop advertises and a profit if pop hop does not advertise. if pop hop advertises, fizzo makes a higher profit if it chooses (not to advertise, to .if pop hop doesn't advertise, fizzo makes a higher profit if it chooses (not to advertise, to . suppose that both firms start off not advertising. if the firms act independently, what strategies will they end up choosing? fizzo will choose to advertise and pop hop will choose not to advertise. both firms will choose to advertise. fizzo will choose not to advertise and pop hop will choose to advertise. both firms will choose not to advertise. again, suppose that both firms start off not advertising. if the firms decide to collude, what strategies will they end up choosing? fizzo will choose not to advertise and pop hop will choose to advertise. both firms will choose not to advertise. fizzo will choose to advertise and pop hop will choose not to advertise. both firms will choose to advertise.