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Consider the following information: Economy Recession Normal Boom Probability of Rate of Return if State Occurs State of Economy Stock A Stock B 20 .035 - 30 .60 115 .20 .20 .190 43 a. Calculate the expected return for the two stocks. (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. Calculate the standard deviation for the two stocks. (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) % % a. Expected return of A Expected return of B b. Standard deviation of A Standard deviation of B % 2 Masterson, Inc., has 4.6 million shares of common stock outstanding. The current share price is $90.50, and the book value per share is $11.75. The company also has two bond issues outstanding. The first bond issue has a face value of $83 million, a coupon rate of 5.1 percent, and sells for 96.7 percent of par. The second issue has a face value of $55 million, a coupon rate of 5.5 percent, and sells for 106.9 percent of par. The first issue matures in 21 years, the second in 11 years. The most recent dividend was $4.34 and the dividend growth rate is 5.3 percent. Assume that the overall cost of debt is the weighted average of that implied by the two outstanding debt issues. Both bonds make semiannual payments. The tax rate is 23 percent. What is the company's cost of equity? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Cost of equity % What is the company's aftertax cost of debt? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Aftertax cost of debt % What is the company's weight of equity? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 4 decimal places, e.g., 32.1616.) 2 Equity weight What is the company's weight of debt? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 4 decimal places, e.g., 32.1616.) Debt weight What is the company's WACC? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) WACC % Mc HE

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