Question

Computer Corp. just paid a dividend of $0.75. If the firm's growth in dividends is expected to remain at a flat 3 percent forever, then what is the cost of equity capital for Computer Corp. if the price of its common shares is currently $12.00

Answer 1

9.44%

Explanation:

According to the given situation, the computation of the cost of equity capital is shown below:-

Cost of equity capital = Dividend × (1 + Expected rate of return) ÷ Common shares + Expected rate of return

Now, we will put the values into the above formula.

= ($0.75 × (1.03) ÷ $12) + 0.03

= 0.0944

or

= 9.44%

Therefore for computing the cost of equity we simply applied the above formula.