Scenario 8.2 Consider a Publicly Held Firm (One Whose Stock Shares

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Multiple Choice

Scenario 8.2
Consider a publicly held firm (one whose stock shares are traded on the stock exchange) that earned revenue worth $350 million and incurred land,labor,and debt costs worth $320 million.The stockholders who have invested a total of $100 million in this firm could have earned 10 percent return on other comparable investments.
-According to the information in Scenario 8.2,the cost of equity capital is:

• A)$112 million.
• B)$30 million.
• C)$20 million.
• D)$120 million.
• E)$10 million.

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