A firm wishes to issue new shares of its stock, which already trades in the market. The current stock price is $24, the most recent dividend was $3 per share, and the dividend is expected to grow at a rate of 4% forever. Flotation costs for this issue are expected to be 6%. What is the required rate of return (or financing cost) in this new issue?

17.83%

Explanation:

The computation of required rate of return is shown below:-

Required rate of return = ((Expected dividend ÷ (Current Stock price × (1 - Flotation cost as a percentage of issue price)) + Growth rate)) × 100

= ((Dividend × (1 + Growth rate)) ÷ Current Price of stock × (1 - Flotation cost as a percentage of issue price)) + Growth rate))) × 100

= ($3 × (1.04) ÷ $24 × (1 - 0.06) + 0.04) × 100

= ($3.12 ÷ $22.56 + 0.04) × 100

= (0.138297872  + 0.04) × 100

= 17.82978723

or

= 17.83%

Therefore we have applied the above formula.

Business used mass production to decrease prices and increase profits because since there was many of one product the prices had to decrease so people could afford the products and if more people buy the products then the businesses will gain more profits from it ( from mass production) .