A firm has a market value equal to its book value. Currently, the firm has $500,000 of excess cash, $4,500,000 in other assets, $1,000,000 in liabilities, $40,000 in common stock at $1 par, $0 in retained earnings, and $30,000 in net income. Assume that the firm uses all of its excess cash to repurchase some of its shares outstanding. How many shares will be outstanding after the repurchases are completed? (Round, if necessary, your final answer to the whole number).

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Cliff Corp (CC) has assets of $300 million including $25 million in cash. CC has 1 million share of stock outstanding and $70 million of debt. Assume capital markets are perfect. What is CC’s current debt-to-equity ratio? What is CC’s current stock price? If CC distributes $18 million in dividends, then what is the new ex- dividend share price? If instead of paying the dividend CC repurchases $18 million of stock, then what will be the new share price? What is the new debt-to-equity ratio after the payout?

Xtel Inc. with a total market value of $630 million has $30 million in excess cash and no debt. Xtel has 1 million shares outstanding. Xtelʹs board is meeng to decide whether to pay out its $30 million in excess cash as a special dividend or to use it to repurchase shares of the firm’s stock. You own 1,000 shares of Xtel stock. Assume that Xtel uses the entire $30 million to repurchase shares. You are unhappy with Xtelʹs decision and would prefer that Xtel used the excess cash to pay a special dividend. As a result, you decide to create a “homemade” dividend. What is the number of shares that you would have to sell in order to receive the same amount of cash as if Xtel paid the special dividend? B

XYZ Co. has 100,000 shares of stock outstanding; total current assets is P2,050,000, P455,000 of which is cash; total current liabilities is P900,000. There is no outstanding dividends payable. Assuming XYZ Co. maintains aminimum current ratio of 2 and that the above accounts will remain unchanged except cash, what is the maximum dividends per share that XYZ Co. can pay in cash? A. P2.50 B. P3.35 C. P3.80 D. P72.05 E. answer not given

Top Rope Productions has 3.00 million shares outstanding that currently trade at $11.66. The firm has $16.00 million of long-term debt, and $6.00 million in cash. What is a rough estimate for the firm's enterprise value? (Express answer in millions. For example, $1,000,000 would be 1.00) Submit Answer format: Currency: Round to: 2 decimal places.

Hewlard Pocket's market value balance sheet is given. Assets Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity A. Original balance sheet Cash Debt 150,000 950,000 Equity $1,100,000 Other assets 1,100,000 Value of firm Value of firm $1,100,000 Shares outstanding = 100,000 Price per share = $1,100,000 / 100,000 = $1 Pocket needs to hold on to $52,000 of cash for a future investment. Nevertheless, it decides to pay a cash dividend of $2.10 per share and to replace cash as needed with a new issue of shares. After the dividend is paid and the new stock is issued: a. What will be the price per share? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) b. What will be the total value of the company? (Enter your answers in whole dollars, not in millions.) c. What will be the total value of the stock held by new investors? (Enter your answers in whole dollars, not in millions. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest whole dollar amount.) d. What…

A firm has 5 million shares outstanding with a market price of $35 per share. The firm has $10 million in extra cash (short-term investments) that it plans to use in a stock repurchase; the firm has no other financial investments or any debt. What is the firm's value of operations after the repurchase? Enter your answer in millions. For example, an answer of $1.23 million should be entered as 1.23, not 1,230,000. Round your answer to two decimal places. $ million How many shares will remain after the repurchase? Round your answer to the nearest whole number. shares

Little Oil has outstanding 1 million shares with a total market value of $29 million. The firm is expected to pay $1.00 million of dividends next year, and thereafter, the amount paid out is expected to grow by 5% a year in perpetuity. Thus, the expected dividend is $1.05 million in year 2, $1.1025 million in year 3, and so on. However, the company has heard that the value of a share depends on the flow of dividends, and therefore, it announces that next year's dividend will be increased to $2 million and that the extra cash will be raised immediately afterward by an issue of shares. After that, the total amount paid out each year will be as previously forecasted, that is, $1.05 million in year 2 and increasing by 5% in each subsequent year. A. At what price will the new shares be issued in year 1? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. B. How many shares will the firm need to issue? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your…

If a firm has retained earnings of $3.4 million, a common shares account of $5.4 million, and additional paid-in capital of $10.8 million, how would these accounts change in response to a 10 percent stock dividend? Assume market value of equity is equal to book value of equity. (Enter your answers in dollars not in millions. Input all amounts as positive values. Indicate the direction of the effect by selecting "increase," "decrease," or "no change" from the drop-down menu.)