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Klieman Company\'s perpetual preferred stock sells for $90 per share and pays a

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Question

  1. Klieman Company's perpetual preferred stock sells for $90 per share and pays a $7.50 annual dividend per share. If the company were to sell a new preferred issue, it would incur a flotation cost of 5.00% of the price paid by investors. What is the company's cost of preferred stock
Klieman Company's perpetual preferred stock sells for $90 per share and pays a $7.50 annual dividend per share. If the company were to sell a new preferred issue, it would incur a flotation cost of 5.00% of the price paid by investors. What is the company's cost of preferred stock Klieman Company's perpetual preferred stock sells for $90 per share and pays a $7.50 annual dividend per share. If the company were to sell a new preferred issue, it would incur a flotation cost of 5.00% of the price paid by investors. What is the company's cost of preferred stock Klieman Company's perpetual preferred stock sells for $90 per share and pays a $7.50 annual dividend per share. If the company were to sell a new preferred issue, it would incur a flotation cost of 5.00% of the price paid by investors. What is the company's cost of preferred stock

Explanation / Answer

Cost of preferred stock:

= Dividend÷(Price-Flotation costs)

= $7.50÷($90-5%)

= 8.77%