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Transcribed Image Text:20.2 A company's present capital structure consists of 1,000,000 shares of equity stock. It requires
*10 million of external financing for which it is considering three alternatives. Alternative A
calls for issuing 1,000,000 equity shares (* 10 par); alternative B calls for issuing 600,000 equity
shares (10 par) and 400,000 preference shares (10 par) carrying 11 percent dividend; alterna-
tive C calls for issuing 200,000 equity shares (10 par) and 8 million of debentures carrying 15
percent interest. The company's tax rate is 50 percent.
Required:
(a) What is the EPS - PBIT equation for alternatives A, B, and C?
(b) Rank the alternatives according to EPS over varying levels of PBIT.
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