The Dance Studio is currently an all-equity firm that has 22,000 shares of stock outstanding with a market price of $27 a share. The current cost of equity is 12 percent and the tax rate is 23 percent. The firm is considering adding $225,000 of debt with a coupon rate of 6.25 percent to its capital structure. The debt will sell at par. What will be the levered value of the equity?

Your company is starting a new r& d initiative: a development of a new drug that dramatically reduces the addiction to smoking. the expert team estimates the probability of developing the drug succesfully at 60% and a chance of losing the investment of 40%. if the project is successful, your company would earn profits (after deducting the investment) of 9,000 (thousand usd). if the development is unsuccessful, the whole investment will be lost -1,000 (thousand usd). your company's risk preference is given by the expected utility function: u(x) v1000 +x, where x is the monetary outcome of a project. calculate the expected profit of the project . calculate the expected utility of the project . find the certainty equivalent of this r& d initiative . find the risk premium of this r& d initiative e is the company risk-averse, risk-loving or risk-neutral? why do you think so?