Refi Corporation is planning to repurchase part of its common stock by issuing corporate debt. As a result, the firm’s debt-equity ratio is expected to rise from 35 percent to 50 percent. The firm currently has $3.1 million worth of debt outstanding. The cost of this debt is 8 percent per year. The firm expects to have an EBIT of $1.3 million per year in perpetuity and pays no taxes.    a. What is the market value of the firm before and after the repurchase announcement? (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.) b. What is the expected return on the firm’s equity before the announcement of the stock repurchase plan? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) c. What is the expected return on the equity of an otherwise identical all-equity firm? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) d. What is the expected return on the firm’s equity after the announcement of the stock repurchase plan?

Use the following information: • Debt: $68,000,000 book value outstanding. The debt is trading at 89% of book value. The yield to maturity is 11%. Equity: 1,800,000 shares selling at $35 per share. Assume the expected rate of return on Federated's stock is 20%. Taxes: Federated's marginal tax rate is Te 0.21. Suppose Federated Junkyards decides to move to a more conservative debt policy. A year later, its debt ratio is down to 16.75% (D/V= 0.1675). The pre-tax cost of debt has dropped to 10.6%. The company's business risk, opportunity cost of capital, and tax rate have not changed. Use the three-step procedure to calculate Federated's WACC under these new assumptions. Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places. Weighted-average cost of capital %

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.