Butcher Timber Company hired your consulting firm to help them estimate the cost of equity. The yield on the firm's bonds is 4.4%, and your firm's economists believe that the cost of equity can be estimated using a risk premium of 4.4% over a firm's own cost of debt. An estimate of the firm's cost of equity from retained earnings ____ %. Show 1 decimal

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