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Rossdale Co. stock currently sells for $69.35 per share and has a beta of .90. The market risk premium is 7.30 percent and the risk-free rate is 2.95 percent annually. The company just paid a dividend of $3.65 per share, which it has pledged to increase at an annual rate of 3.35 percent indefinitely. What is your best estimate of the company's cost of equity

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Answer:

9.52%

Step-by-step explanation:

Cost of equity can be determined using the capital asset pricing model

he capital asset price model: cost of equity = risk free + (beta x market risk premium )

Risk free return = return on a risk free asset

Beta is a measure of the systematic risk.

Risk premium = market rate of return - risk free rate

2.95% + (0.90 x 7.30%) = 9.52%

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