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AAA Corporation and BBB Corporation are identical in every way except their capital structures. AAA Corporation, an all-equity firm, has 45 million shares of stock outstanding, currently worth $50 per share. BBB Corporation uses leverage in its capital structure. The market value of BBB’s debt is $400mil., and its cost of debt is 3.5 percent. Each firm is expected to have earnings before interest and tax of $155mil. in perpetuity. Assume that every investor can borrow at 3.5 percent per year. Corporate tax rate is 35%.
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- DFS Corporation is currently an all-equity firm, with assets with a market value of $ 163 million and 5 million shares outstanding. DFS is considering a leveraged recapitalization to boost its share price. The firm plans to raise a fixed amount of permanent debt (i.e., the outstanding principal will remain constant) and use the proceeds to repurchase shares. DFS pays a 21 % corporate tax rate, so one motivation for taking on the debt is to reduce the firm's tax liability. However, the upfront investment banking fees associated with the recapitalization will be 6 % of the amount of debt raised. Adding leverage will also create the possibility of future financial distress or agency costs; shown in the table here, are DFS's estimates for different levels of debt. a. Based on this information, which level of debt is the best choice for DFS? b. Estimate the stock price once this transaction is announced. 9 Debt amount ($ million) 0 10 20 30 40 50 Present value of expected distress and…arrow_forwardContractual Engineering Incorporated (GEI) has a capital structure which is based on 40 percent debt, 5 percent preferred stock, and 55 percent common stock. The pre-tax cost of debt is 7.5 percent, the cost of preferred is 9 percent, and the cost of common stock is 13 percent. The company's tax rate is 39 percent. What is the company's WACC?arrow_forwardABC Co. and XYZ Co. are identical firms in all respects except for their capital structures. ABC is all-equity financed with $575,000 in stock. XYZ uses both stock and perpetual debt; its stock is worth $287,500 and the interest rate on its debt is 8.5 percent. Both firms expect EBIT to be $64,000. Ignore taxes. a. Richard owns $34,500 worth of XYZ's stock. What rate of return is he expecting? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. Suppose Richard invests in ABC Co. and uses homemade leverage to match his cash flow in part (a). Calculate his total cash flow and rate of return. (Enter your return answer as a percent. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) c. What is the cost of equity for ABC and XYZ? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g ., 32.16.) d. What is the WACC for ABC…arrow_forward
- ABC Co. and XYZ Co. are identical firms in all respects except for their capital structures. ABC is all-equity financed with $500,000 in stock. XYZ uses both stock and perpetual debt; its stock is worth $250,000 and the interest rate on its debt is 8 percent. Both firms expect EBIT to be $51,000. Ignore taxes. a. Richard owns $25,000 worth of XYZ's stock. What rate of return is he expecting? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. Suppose Richard invests in ABC Co. and uses homemade leverage to match his cash flow in part (a). Calculate his total cash flow and rate of return. (Enter your return answer as a percent. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) c. What is the cost of equity for ABC and XYZ? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) d. What is the WACC for ABC and…arrow_forwarda. Richard owns $33,000 worth of XYZ's stock. What rate of return is he expecting? Rate of return b. Calculate the cash flows and rate of return by investing in ABC, and using homemade leverage, how Richard could generate exactly the same? Total cash flow Rate of return ABC XYZ % c. What is the cost of equity for ABC? What is it for XYZ? Cost of equity ABC XYZ $ d. What is the WACC for ABC? For XYZ? WACC %arrow_forwardBarclay Corp is operating in a country K where the corporate tax is 40%, personal income tax on bond investment is 25% while the personal tax on stock is 29%. Assume the firm’s earnings before interest and taxes is $5,400,000 and cost of equity with zero debt is 9%. (Please Show Work) If Barclay current has $12 million total market value of debt financing, what would be the market value of the company of Barclay Corp in this country K?(Please Show Work) What is the proportion of debt (wd) and equity (ws) financing for Barclay Corp with financial leverage? (Please Show Work)arrow_forward
- Cede & Co can borrow at 11 percent. Cede currently has no debt, and the cost of equity is 12 percent. The current value of the firm is $664,000. The corporate tax rate is 30 percent. Required: What will the value be if Cede borrows $223,000 and uses the proceeds to repurchase shares?arrow_forwardPettit Printing Company (PPC) has a total market value of $100 million, consisting of 1 million shares selling for $50 per share and $50 million of 10% perpetual bonds now selling at par. The company's EBIT is $12.68 million, and its tax rate is 15%. Pettit can change its capital structure by either increasing its debt to 65% (based on market values) or decreasing it to 35%. If it decides to increase its use of leverage, it must call its old bonds and issue new ones with a 12% coupon. If it decides to decrease its leverage, it will call its old bonds and replace them with new 9% coupon bonds. The company will sell or repurchase stock at the new equilibrium price to complete the capital structure change. PPC expects no growth in its EBIT, so gL is zero. Its current cost of equity, rs, is 14%. If it increases leverage, rs will be 16%. If it decreases leverage, rs will be 13%. What is the firm's WACC and total corporate value under each capital structure? Do not round intermediate…arrow_forwardFoundation, Incorporated, 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 185,000 shares of stock outstanding. Under Plan II, there would be 135,000 shares of stock outstanding and $1.9 million in debt outstanding. The interest rate on the debt is 7 percent, and there are no taxes. a. If EBIT is $425,000, what is the EPS for each plan? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. If EBIT is $675,000, what is the EPS for each plan? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) c. What is the break-even EBIT? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567.) a. Plan I EPS a. Plan II EPS b. Plan I EPS b. Plan II EPS c. Break-even EBITarrow_forward
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