Ardoin Enterprises has to determine its cost of capital using the following information: The firm has $40,000,000 in corporate bonds currently selling at 97.5. The bonds mature in 9 years and have an annual coupon rate of 6.6% paid semiannually. The firm faces a 34% tax rate and has 1,500,000 shares of preferred stock that pays a dividend of $0.80 per year and currently sells for $9.00 per share.
Common stock selling for $3.50 per share has just paid a dividend of $0.30 and is expected to grow by 4% forever. The firm has a beta of 1.4 and the risk free rate on treasury securities is 2.5%. The average return on the S&P500 is 12.54%.
Calculate the cost of capital for the firm. Ardoin Enterprises has 25 million common shares outstanding.

Wo firms, a and b, each currently dump 50 tons of chemicals into the local river. the government has decided to reduce the pollution and from now on will require a pollution permit for each ton of pollution dumped into the river. it costs firm a $100 for each ton of pollution that it eliminates before it reaches the river, and it costs firm b $50 for each ton of pollution that it eliminates before it reaches the river. the government gives each firm 20 pollution permits. government officials are not sure whether to allow the firms to buy or sell the pollution permits to each other. what is the total cost of reducing pollution if firms are not allowed to buy and sell pollution permits from each other? what is the total cost of reducing pollution if the firms are allowed to buy and sell permits from each other? a. $3,000; $1,500 b. $4,500; $3,500 c. $4,500; $4,000 d. $4,500; $2,500