Town Crier has 6.7 million shares of common stock outstanding, 3.7 million shares of preferred stock outstanding, and 27.00 thousand bonds. If the common shares are selling for $29.80 per share, the preferred share are selling for $17.20 per share, and the bonds are selling for 96.83 percent of par, what would be the weight used for common stock in the computation of Town Crier's WACC

0.2488

Explanation:

Calculation to determine what would be the weight used for common stock in the computation of Town Crier's WACC

Using this formula

WACC=(shares of preferred stock outstanding*preferred share are selling per share)/(shares of common stock outstandin*common shares are selling for per share,)+(shares of preferred stock outstanding*preferred share are selling per share)+ (bonds amount*bonds selling percent of par*1,000)

Let plug in the morning

WACC=(3.7 million *$17.20)/(6.7 million x$29.80)+(3.7 million *$17.20)+27.00 thousand bonds*96.83 percent*1,000

=$63,640,000/($199,660,000+$26,144,100)

=$63,640,000/$255,804,100

=0.2488*100

=24.88%

Therefore what would be the weight used for common stock in the computation of Town Crier's WACC is 24.88%

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