Piedmont Hotels is an all-equity firm with

Piedmont Hotels is an all-equity firm with

Piedmont Hotels is an all-equity firm with
Subject: Business    / Finance
Question

Piedmont Hotels is an all-equity firm with 60,000 shares of stock outstanding. The stock has a beta of 1.27 and a standard deviation of 13.8 percent. The market risk premium is 9.1 percent and the risk-free rate of return is 4.5 percent. The company is considering a project that it considers riskier than its current operations so it wants to apply an adjustment of 1 percent to the project’s discount rate. What should the firm set as the required rate of return for the project?