Your firm needs to raise $12 million to finance its capital expenditures for the coming year. The

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Your firm needs to raise $12 million to finance its capital expenditures for the coming year. The firm earned $4 million last year and will pay out half this amount in dividends. If the firm's CFO wants to finance new investments using no more than 40 percent debt financing, how much common stock will the firm have to issue to raise the needed $10 million?

Common Stock
Common stock is an equity component that represents the worth of stock owned by the shareholders of the company. The common stock represents the par value of the shares outstanding at a balance sheet date. Public companies can trade their stocks on...