Purchase Solution

WACC/Capital Budgeting for Adams Corp.

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Adams Corp. is considering four average-risk projects with the following costs & rates of returns:

Project Cost Expected Rate of Return
1 $2,000 16.00%
2 $3,000 15.00%
3 $5,000 13.75%
4 $2,000 12.50%

Adams has a cost of debt = 10%, tax rate is 30%. Adams can issue preferred stock that pays a constant dividend of $5 per year at $49 per share. Adams common stock sells for $36 per share, the next expected dividend, D1, is $3.50, and the dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 6% per year. The target capital structure is 75% common stock, 15% debt, and 10% preferred stock.

1) What is the cost of each of the capital components?
2) What is Adams WACC?
3) Which project should Adams accept?

Purchase this Solution

Solution Summary

This solution is comprised of a detailed explanation and calculation to compute the cost of each capital component, WACC, and find which project to accept.

Solution Preview

WACC/Capital Budgeting
________________________________________
Adams Corp. is considering four average-risk projects with the following costs & rates of returns:

Project Cost Expected Rate of Return
1 $2,000 16.00%
2 $3,000 15.00%
3 $5,000 13.75%
4 $2,000 12.50% ...

Purchase this Solution


Free BrainMass Quizzes
Business Ethics Awareness Strategy

This quiz is designed to assess your current ability for determining the characteristics of ethical behavior. It is essential that leaders, managers, and employees are able to distinguish between positive and negative ethical behavior. The quicker you assess a person's ethical tendency, the awareness empowers you to develop a strategy on how to interact with them.

Basic Social Media Concepts

The quiz will test your knowledge on basic social media concepts.

Learning Lean

This quiz will help you understand the basic concepts of Lean.

Organizational Behavior (OB)

The organizational behavior (OB) quiz will help you better understand organizational behavior through the lens of managers including workforce diversity.

Operations Management

This quiz tests a student's knowledge about Operations Management