Blackstone Industries uses a combination of common stock, preferred stock, and debt financing. The company wants...

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Blackstone Industries uses a combination of common stock, preferred stock, and debt financing. The company wants preferred stock to represent 10 percent of the total financing. They also want to structure their firm in a manner that will produce a weighted average cost of capital of 7 percent. The cost of debt is 4.2 percent, the cost of preferred is 7.7 percent, and the cost of common stock is 9.5 percent. What percent of their total financing should be done with debt (show calculations)? Wp = 10%. Ro=4.2%. Rp=7.7% Blackstone Industries uses a combination of common stock, preferred stock, and debt financing. The company wants preferred stock to represent 10 percent of the total financing. They also want to structure their firm in a manner that will produce a weighted average cost of capital of 7 percent. The cost of debt is 4.2 percent, the cost of preferred is 7.7 percent, and the cost of common stock is 9.5 percent. What percent of their total financing should be done with debt (show calculations)? Wp = 10%. Ro=4.2%. Rp=7.7%

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