Bacchus Enterprises has $12B in book value of common stock selling at a book to market rate of 1.35 and a beta of 1.5. The combined preferred stock is valued at $8.5B with a beta of 1.23. The restructured debt has a book value of $4.8B in book value and has a coupon of 6%, maturing in 9 years, and selling at 102.5%. The market is doing quite well and is returning 14% with a risk free asset returning 4%. What is the Cost of Preferred Stock

The common stock and debt of northern sludge are valued at $65 million and $35 million, respectively. investors currently require a return of 15.9% on the common stock and a return of 7.8% on the debt. if northern sludge issues an additional $14 million of common stock and uses this money to retire debt, what happens to the expected return on the stock? assume that the change in capital structure does not affect the interest rate on northern’s debt and that there are no taxes.