Mr. Joseph has identified five different companies in which he is interested in investing, however, he has concerns over the economy and wants to invest in companies with the lowest debt exposure. The following is a list of data for the investments: Company Total Assets Total Liabilities Net Income
A $10,000,000 $1,000,000 $200,000
B 20,000,000 3,000,000 1,000,000
C 6,000,000 4,000,000 250,000
D 15,000,000 6,000,000 1,600,000
E 30,000,000 22,000,000 4,000,000

Required:
Calculate the debt-to-equity ratio and rank the investments base on least risky to most risky.

Highland company produces a lightweight backpack that is popular with college students. standard variable costs relating to a single backpack are given below

"in my opinion, we ought to stop making our own drums and accept that outside supplier's offer," said wim niewindt, managing director of antilles refining, n.v., of aruba. "at a price of $21 per drum, we would be paying $4.70 less than it costs us to manufacture the drums in our own plant. since we use 70,000 drums a year, that would be an annual cost savings of $329,000." antilles refining's current cost to manufacture one drum is given below (based on 70,000 drums per year):

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