Question

Bacchus Enterprises has $12B in book value of common stock selling at a book to market rate of 1.35 and a beta of 1.5. The combined preferred stock is valued at $8.5B with a beta of 1.23. The restructured debt has a book value of $4.8B in book value and has a coupon of 6%, maturing in 9 years, and selling at 102.5%. The market is doing quite well and is returning 14% with a risk free asset returning 4%. What is the Cost of Preferred Stock

Answer 1

Answer: 16.3%

Explanation:

Given the details in the question, the cost of preferred capital can be calculated using the CAPM method.

Cost of preferred stock using the Capital Asset Pricing Model is:

= Risk free rate + Beta * ( Market return - Risk free rate)

= 4% + 1.23 * (14% - 4%)

= 16.3%