Cullumber Company is considering these two alternatives for financing the purchase of a fleet of airplanes. 1.   Issue 63,000 shares of common stock at $48 per share. (Cash dividends have not been paid nor is the payment of any contemplated.) 2.   Issue 13%, 15-year bonds at face value for $3,024,000. It is estimated that the company will earn $825,000 before interest and taxes as a result of this purchase. The company has an estimated tax rate of 40% and has 94,100 shares of common stock outstanding prior to the new financing. Determine the effect on net income and earnings per share for issuing stock and issuing bonds. Assume the new shares or new bonds will be outstanding for the entire year.

Kyra Ltd. is finance solely with equity. The company considers to obtain a loan of €1,000,000 from a local bank against an interest rate of 8%.This loan will be repaid in 2 years with equal amounts per year.The current corporate tax rate is 35%.Calculate based on the Modigliani & Miller’s proposition 1 with taxes what the added value of the company will be after the announcement of the acceptance of the loan.

An investment bank agrees to underwrite an issue of 15 million shares of stock for Looney Landscaping Corporation. a. The investment bank underwrites the stock on a firm commitment basis, and agrees to pay $10.00 per share to Looney Landscaping Corporation for the 15 million shares of stock. The investment bank then sells those shares to the public for $11.50 per share. How much money does Looney Landscaping Corporation receive? What is the profit to the investment bank? If the investment bank can sell the shares for only $8.50, how much money does Looney Landscaping Corporation receive? What is the profit to the investment bank? b. Suppose, instead, that the investment bank agrees to underwrite the 15 million shares on a best efforts basis. The investment bank is able to sell 13.5 million shares for $10.00 per share, and it charges Looney Landscaping Corporation $0.325 per share sold. How much money does Looney Landscaping Corporation receive? What is the profit to the investment…

Landman Corporation (LC) manufactures time series photographic equipment. It is currently at its target debt-equity ratio of .78. It’s considering building a new $66.8 million manufacturing facility. This new plant is expected to generate aftertax cash flows of $7.93 million in perpetuity. There are three financing options: A new issue of common stock: The required return on the company’s new equity is 15.2 percent. A new issue of 20-year bonds: If the company issues these new bonds at an annual coupon rate of 7.1 percent, they will sell at par. Increased use of accounts payable financing: Because this financing is part of the company’s ongoing daily business, the company assigns it a cost that is the same as the overall firm WACC. Management has a target ratio of accounts payable to long-term debt of .10. (Assume there is no difference between the pretax and aftertax accounts payable cost.) If the tax rate is 23 percent, what is the NPV of the new plant? Note: A negative answer should…