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Cloud [144]
3 years ago
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Piedmont Hotels is an all-equity firm with 48,000 shares of stock outstanding. The stock has a beta of 1.19 and a standard devia

tion of 14.8 percent. The market risk premium is 7.8 percent and the risk-free rate of return is 4.1 percent. The company is considering a project that it considers riskier than its current operations so has assigned an adjustment of 1.35 percent to the project's discount rate. What should the firm set as the required rate of return for the project?
Business
1 answer:
user100 [1]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

The firm set as the required rate of return for the project is 14.732%

Explanation:

For computing the required rate of return, the following formula should be used which is shown below:

= Risk free rate of return + (Beta × market risk premium) + adjustment

where,

Risk free rate of return is 4.1%

Beta is 1.19

Market risk premium is 7.8%

Adjustment is 1.35%

Now put these values to the above formula

So, the value wold be equal to

= 4.1% + (1.19 × 7.8%)+ 1.35%

= 4.1% + 9.28% + 1.35%

= 14.732%

The standard deviation is irrelevant. Therefore, it is not considered in the computation part.

Hence, the firm set as the required rate of return for the project is 14.732%

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