Which of the Following Statements Is CORRECT

question 13

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

• A) A cost should be assigned to reinvested earnings due to the opportunity cost principle, which refers to the fact that the firm's stockholders would themselves expect to earn a return on earnings that were distributed rather than retained and reinvested.
• B) No cost should be assigned to reinvested earnings because the firm does not have to pay anything to raise them. They are generated as cash flows by operating assets that were raised in the past; hence, they are "free."
• C) Suppose a firm has been losing money and thus is not paying taxes, and this situation is expected to persist into the foreseeable future. In this case, the firm's before-tax and after-tax costs of debt for purposes of calculating the WACC will both be equal to the interest rate on the firm's currently outstanding debt, provided that debt was issued during the past 5 years.
• D) If a firm has enough reinvested earnings to fund its capital budget for the coming year, then there is no need to estimate either a cost of equity or a WACC.
• E) The component cost of preferred stock is expressed as r_p(1 - T). This follows because preferred stock dividends are treated as fixed charges, and as such they can be deducted by the issuer for tax purposes.

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Definitions:

Dividend Yield

Dividend Yield is a financial ratio that shows how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its stock price, indicating the return on investment from dividends alone.

Cash Dividends Per Share

The amount of cash distributed to shareholders per share out of a company's earnings.

Market Price

The market value at which you can currently buy or sell an asset or service.

Book Value Per Share

Book Value Per Share is a financial measure that calculates the equity available to shareholders divided by the number of outstanding shares, indicating the value per share if the company were liquidated.