David Ortiz Motors has a target capital structure of 40 percent debt and 60 percent equity. The yield to maturity on the company’s outstanding bonds is 9 percent, and the company’s tax rate is 40 percent. Ortiz’s CFO has calculated the company’s WACC as 9.96 percent. What is the company’s cost of equity capital?

David paid $975,000 for two beachfront lots in coastal south carolina, with the intention of building residential homes on each. two years later, the south carolina legislature passed the beachfront management act, barring any further development of the coast, including david's lots. when david files a complaint to seek compensation for his property, south carolina refuses, pointing to a passage in david's own complaint that states "the beachfront management act [was] properly and validly designed to south carolina's " is south carolina required to compensate david under the takings clause?