Steady Company’s stock has a beta of 0.20. If the risk-free rate is 6% and the market risk premium is 7%, what is an estimate of Steady Company’s cost of equity?

the estimation of the cost of equity is 7.4%

Explanation:

The computation of the estimation of the cost of equity is shown below:

Here we used the Capital Asset Pricing model formula i.e.

Cost of equity = Risk free rate + Beta × market risk premium

= 6% + 0.20 × 7%

= 6% + 1.4%

= 7.4%

Hence, the estimation of the cost of equity is 7.4%

We simply applied the above formula so that the correct value could come

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