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Ellington electronics wants you to calculate its cost of common stock. During the next 12 months, the company expects to pay dividends (D1) of $2.00 per share and teh current price of its common stock is $40 per share. The expected growth rate is 3%.
a) Compute the cost of retained earnings.
b) If a $3 flotation cost is involved compute the cost of new common stock.
a) Computation of the cost of retained earnings:-
Cost of retained earnings = (D1 / Current price) + Growth rate
= ($2 / $40) + 3%
= 5%+ 3%
= 8%
b) Computation of the cost of new common stock:-
Cost of new common stock = (D1 / (Current price - Flotation cost)) + Growth rate
= ($2 / ($40 - $3)) + 3%
= ($2 / $37) + 3%
= 5.41% + 3%
= 8.41%
