In January 2007, the Status Quo Company was formed. Total assets were $502,000, of which $354,000 consisted of depreciable fixed assets. Status Quo uses straight-line depreciation of $35,400 per year, and in 2007 it estimated its fixed assets to have useful lives of 10 years. Aftertax income has been $44,000 per year for each of the last 10 years. Other assets have not changed since 2007. a. Compute return on assets at year-end for 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2016. (Use $44,000 in the numerator for each year.) (Input your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)

Calculate the cost of each capital component—in other words, the after-tax cost of debt, the cost of preferred stock (including flotation costs), and the cost of equity (ignoring flotation costs). use both the capm method and the dividend growth approach to find the cost of equity.calculate the cost of new stock using the dividend growth approach.what is the cost of new common stock based on the capm? (hint: find the difference between re and rs as determined by the dividend growth approach and then add that difference to the capm value for rs.)assuming that gao will not issue new equity and will continue to use the same target capital structure, what is the company’s wacc? e. suppose gao is evaluating three projects with the following characteristics.each project has a cost of $1 million. they will all be financed using the target mix of long-term debt, preferred stock, and common equity. the cost of the common equity for each project should be based on the beta estimated for the project. all equity will come from reinvested earnings.equity invested in project a would have a beta of 0.5 and an expected return of 9.0%.equity invested in project b would have a beta of 1.0 and an expected return of 10.0%.equity invested in project c would have a beta of 2.0 and an expected return of 11.0%.analyze the company’s situation, and explain why each project should be accepted or rejected g