Suppose a company uses only debt and internal equity to finance its capital budget and uses CAPM to compute its cost of Common equity. Company estimates that its WACC is 14%.  The debt is 1.5x the Internal Equity which has 40% of the total capital structure. The internal Equity consist of 15% Preferred stock , and 25% common Stock, its cost of preferred stock is 20%, before tax cost of debt is 12.5 % and tax rate is 20%. Risk free rate is rRF = 6% and the Beta factor is (bi ) = 1.75

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Suppose a company uses only debt and internal equity to finance its
capital budget and uses CAPM to compute its cost of Common equity.

Company estimates that its WACC is 14%. 

The debt is 1.5x the Internal Equity which has 40% of the total capital structure.

The internal Equity consist of 15% Preferred stock , and 25% common Stock, its cost of preferred stock is 20%, before tax cost of debt is 12.5 % and tax rate is 20%. Risk free rate is rRF = 6% and the Beta factor is (bi ) = 1.75

What is the rate of market risk premium?

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