Question

Piedmont Hotels is an all-equity company. Its stock has a beta of .82. The market risk premium is 6.9 percent and the risk-free rate is 4.5 percent. The company is considering a project that it considers riskier than its current operations so it wants to apply an adjustment of 1.7 percent to the project's discount rate. What should the firm set as the required rate of return for the project?

Answer 1

Answer:

11.86%

Explanation:

Piedmont hotels can be described as an all-equity company

Its stock has a beta of 0.82

The market risk premium is 6.9%

The risk free rate is 4.5%

The adjustment is 1.7%

Therefore, the required rate of return can be calculated as follows

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

= 4.5% + (0.82×6.9%) + 1.7%

= 4.5% + 5.658 + 1.7%

= 11.86%

Hence the required rate of return for the project is 11.86%