Butcher Timber Company Hired Your Consulting Firm to Help Them

Multiple Choice

Butcher Timber Company hired your consulting firm to help them estimate the cost of equity. The yield on the firm's bonds is 8.75%, and your firm's economists believe that the cost of equity can be estimated using a risk premium of 3.85% over a firm's own cost of debt. What is an estimate of the firm's cost of equity from retained earnings?

A) 12.60%
B) 13.10%
C) 13.63%
D) 14.17%
E) 14.74%