A firm has no debt outstanding and a total market value of $786,590. Earnings before interest and taxes, EBIT, are projected to be $74, 500. The company is considering a $30,940 debt issue with an interest rate of 8%.  The proceeds will be used to repurchase shares of stock. There are currently 33,050 shares outstanding. Ignore taxes for this problem. How many shares were repurchased under this plan? A) 1235 B)1170 C) 1105 D)1365 E) 1300

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The net income of Progressive Corporation is $92,000. The company has 25,000 outstanding shares and a 100 percent payout policy. The expected value of the firm one year from now is $1,790,000. The appropriate discount rate for the company is 11 percent and the dividend tax rate is zero. a. What is the current value of the firm assuming the current dividend has not yet been paid? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. What is the ex-dividend price of the company's stock if the board follows its current policy? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) a. Current value of the firm b. Share price

Marker, Incorporated, wishes to expand its facilities. The company currently has 5 million shares outstanding and no debt. The stock sells for $40 per share, but the book value per share is $53. Net income is currently $3.6 million. The new facility will cost $20 million, and it will increase net income by $280,000. The par value of the stock is $1 per share. Assume a constant price-earnings ratio. a-1. Calculate the new book value per share. Assume the stock price is constant. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) a-2. Calculate the new total earnings. (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, rounded to the nearest whole number, e.g., 1,234,567.) a-3. Calculate the new EPS. Include the incremental net income in your calculations. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 4 decimal places, e.g., 32.1616.) a-4. Calculate the new stock price. Include…

Use the following information for questions 17 and 18: Powell Plastics, Inc. (PP) currently has zero debt. Its free cash flow last year was $48,000, and it is a zero growth company. PP's current cost of equity is 10%, and its tax rate is 40%. The firm has 10,000 shares of common stock outstanding selling at a price per share of $48.00. PP is considering moving to a capital structure that is comprised of 30% debt and 70% equity. The debt would have an interest rate of 8%. The new funds would be used to repurchase stock. It is estimated that the increase in risk resulting from the added leverage would cause the required rate of return on equity to rise to 12%. If this plan were carried out, what would be PP's new value of operations? O $487,805 $505,524 O $525,173 O $734,634 O $813,008

Fujita, Incorporated, has no debt outstanding and a total market value of $250,000. Earnings before interest and taxes, EBIT, are projected to be $42,000 if economic conditions are normal. If there is strong expansion in the economy, then EBIT will be 18 percent higher. If there is a recession, then EBIT will be 30 percent lower. The company is considering a $100,000 debt issue with an interest rate of 8 percent. The proceeds will be used to repurchase shares of stock. There are currently 10,000 shares outstanding. Ignore taxes for this problem. a-1. Calculate earnings per share, EPS, under each of the three economic scenarios before any debt is issued. Note: Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16. a-2. Calculate the percentage changes in EPS when the economy expands or enters a recession. Note: A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded…

Consider a firm with an EBITDA of $1,100,000 and an EBIT of $1,000,000. The firm finances its assets with $4,640,000 debt (costing 8.4 percent, all of which is tax deductible) and 214,000 shares of stock selling at $12 per share. To reduce risk associated with this financial leverage, the firm is considering reducing its debt by $2,640,000 by selling additional shares of stock. The firm’s tax rate is 21 percent. The change in capital structure will have no effect on the operations of the firm. Thus, EBIT will remain at $1,000,000. Calculate the EPS before and after the change in capital structure and indicate changes in EPS.

n Tina Black's Fabrics is currently an all equity firm that has 15,000 shares of stock outstanding at a market price of $12.50 a share. Company management has decided to issue $60,000 worth of debt and use the funds to repurchase shares of the outstanding stock at the market price. The interest rate on the debt will be 7%. Ignoring taxes, what is the earnings per share (EPS) at the break-even level of earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT)? O A. O B. O D. $1.143 O C. $1.500 SOE. $1.125 $0.875 $0.667 27/