Your Firm Is Planning to Invest in a New Electrostatic

question 28

Multiple Choice

Your firm is planning to invest in a new electrostatic power generation system.Electrostat Inc is a firm that specializes in this business.Electrostat has a stock price of $25 per share with 16 million shares outstanding.Electrostat's equity beta is 1.18.It also has $220 million in debt outstanding with a debt beta of 0.08.Your estimate of the asset beta for electrostatic power generators is closest to:

• A)0.76.
• B)0.79.
• C)0.93.
• D)1.10.

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