Southern Home Cookin' just paid its annual dividend of $.75 a share. The stock has a market

Question:

Southern Home Cookin' just paid its annual dividend of $.75 a share. The stock has a market price of $32 and a beta of 1.1. The return on the U.S. Treasury bill is 5 percent and the market risk premium is 14 percent. What is the cost of equity?

Dividend
A dividend is a distribution of a portion of company’s earnings, decided and managed by the company’s board of directors, and paid to the shareholders. Dividends are given on the shares. It is a token reward paid to the shareholders for their...