Jackson Company The Jackson Company Has Just Paid a Dividend of $3.00

question 42

Multiple Choice

Jackson Company
The Jackson Company has just paid a dividend of $3.00 per share on its common stock, and it expects this dividend to grow by 10 percent per year, indefinitely. The firm has a beta of 1.50; the risk-free rate is 10 percent; and the expected return on the market is 14 percent. The firm's investment bankers believe that new issues of common stock would have a flotation cost equal to 5 percent of the current market price.
-Refer to Jackson Company.What will be Jackson's cost of new common stock if it issues new stock in the marketplace today?

• A) 15.25%
• B) 16.32%
• C) 17.00%
• D) 12.47%
• E) 9.85%

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