American​ Exploration, Inc., a natural gas​ producer, is trying to decide whether to revise its target capital structure. Currently it targets a 50​-50 mix of debt and​ equity, but it is considering a target capital structure with 90​% debt. American Exploration currently has 5​% ​after-tax cost of debt and a 10​% cost of common stock. The company does not have any preferred stock outstanding.   a.  What is American​ Exploration's current​ WACC? b.  Assuming that its cost of debt and equity remain​ unchanged, what will be American​ Exploration's WACC under the revised target capital​ structure? c.  Do you think shareholders are affected by the increase in debt to 90​%? If​ so, how are they​ affected? Are the common stock claims riskier​ now?

Galaxy Products is comparing two different capital structures, an all-equity plan (Plan I) and a levered plan (Plan II). Under Plan I, Galaxy would have 178,500 shares of stock outstanding selling at $24. Under Plan II, there would be 71,400 shares of stock outstanding and $1.79 million in debt outstanding. The interest rate on the debt is 10% and there are no taxes. If EBIT is $600,000 which plan will result in the higher EPS?

Labrador technologies Inc. plans to become public soon. The board of directors would like to know the value of common equity and have asked for your opinion. The firm has $1,249,917 in preferred equity and the market value of its outstanding debt equals $2,049,396. The WACC for this firm is estimated to be 8.92%. For this example assume the current assets are zero. Use the DCF valuation model with the expected FCFs shown below; year 1 represents one year from today and so on. The company expects to grow at a 3.0% rate after Year 5. Rounding to the nearest penny, what is the value of common equity? Free Cash Period Flow Year 1 $1,370,274 Year 2 $1,761,479 Year 3 $1,909,652 Year 4 $2,361,090 Year 5 $2,744,645

You are comparing two possible capital structures for a firm. The first option is an all-equity firm. The second option involves the use of $3.8 million of debt. The break-even point between these two financing options occurs when earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) are $428,000. Given this, you know that leverage is beneficial to the firm:  A- whenever EBIT exceeds $428,000 B- whenever EBIT is less than $428,000 C- only when EBIT is $428,000 D- only if the debt is decreased by $428,000 E- only is the debt is increased by $428,000

Suppose that MNINK Industries’ capital structure features 63 percent equity, 8 percent preferred stock, and 29 percent debt. Assume the before-tax component costs of equity, preferred stock, and debt are 11.40 percent, 9.30 percent, and 8.00 percent, respectively.What is MNINK’s WACC if the firm faces an average tax rate of 21 percent and can make full use of the interest tax shield? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Foundation Corporation is comparing two different capital structures, an all-equity plan (Plan I) and a levered plan (Plan II). Under Plan I, the company would have 175,000 shares of stock outstanding. Under Plan II, there would be 125,000 shares of stock outstanding and $1.47 million in debt outstanding. The interest rate on the debt is 5 percent and there are no taxes. a. Use MM Proposition to find the price per share. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. What is the value of the firm under each of the two proposed plans? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers in dollars, not millions of dollars, rounded to the nearest whole number, e.g., 1,234,567.) a. Share price b. All-equity plan b. Levered plan $ 71.43

An outside consultant has suggested that because debt is cheaper than equity, the firm should switch to a capital structure that is 50 percent debt and 50 percent equity. Under this new and more debt-oriented arrangement, the aftertax cost of debt is 9.00 percent, and the cost of common equity (in the form of retained earnings) is 17.00 percent. b. Recalculate the firm's weighted average cost of capital. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Input your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) Debt Common equity Weighted average cost of capital Weighted Cost % 0.00 %

Assuming that there is an unlevered firm and a levered firm. The basic information is given by the following table.   Table1: Information of the firms   Unlevered firm Levered firm EBIT 20000 20000 Interest     Taxable income     Tax (tax rate: 34%)     Net income     CFFA       Assuming that: The size of the debt is 8000; cost of debt =8%; unlevered cost of capital =10%; systematic risk of the asset is 1.5 Fill in the blanks What is the present value of the tax shield? Calculate the following values:a) Calculate value of unlevered firm; b) value of the levered firm; c) equity value; d) Cost of equity; e) cost of capital; f) systematic risk of the equity Suppose that the firm changes its capital structure so that the debt-to-equity ratio is 1.6, then recalculate the systematic risk of the equity If the firm now has the following project: in year 0, the cashflow is 5000, in year 1, the cashflow is -5500. Based on the IRR rule,…