Costly Corporation is considering a new preferred stock issue. The preferred would have a par value of $1000 with an annual dividend equal to 15.0% of par. The company believes that the market value of the stock would be $576.00 per share with flotation costs of $52.00 per share. The firm's marginal tax rate is 40%. What is the firm's cost of preferred stock?

28.63%

Explanation:

The computation of the cost of preferred stock is shown below:

Cost of the preferred stock = Dividend : Price of the stock

where,

Dividend is

= $1,000 * $15%

= $150

And, the price of the stock is

= Market value of the stock - flotation cost

= $576 - $52

= $524

So, the cost of preferred stock is

= $150 : $524

= 28.63%

We ignored the marginal tax rate i. e 40%