Surf & Turf Hotels is a mature business, although it pays no cash dividends. Next year’s earnings are forecast at $52 million. There are 10 million outstanding shares. The company has traditionally used 50% of earnings to repurchase shares of stock and has reinvested the remaining earnings. With reinvestment, the company has generated steady growth averaging 5% per year. Assume the cost of equity is 10%.   1.  Surf & Turf’s CFO announces a switch from repurchases to a regular cash dividend. Next year’s dividend will be $3.10 per share. The CFO reassures investors that the company will continue to pay out 50% of earnings and reinvest 50%. All future payouts will come as dividends, however. What would you expect to happen to Surf & Turf’s stock price

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

Atlantic Northern Inc. just reported a net income of $5,000,000, and its current stock price is $25.75 per share. Atlantic Northern is forecasting an increase of 25% for its net income next year, but it also expects it will have to issue 1,500,000 new shares of stock (raising its shares outstanding from 5,500,000 shares to 7,000,000 shares). If Atlantic Northern's forecast turns out to be correct and its price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio does not change, what does management expect its stock price to be one year from now? $25.18 per share O $25.75 per share O$18.88 per share $31.48 per share One year later, Atlantic Northern Inc.'s stock is trading at $43.50, and the company reports its common equity value as $35,252,000. What is Atlantic Northern Inc.'s market-to-book (M/B) ratio? 8.63x Is it possible for a company to have a negative EPS and thus a negative P/E ratio? Yes v

Ocasa Ltd. Just paid a dividend of $6.00 per share next year, and that the dividend will grow at the same rate as its profits. High profits are expected during this period, with the first three years of growth estimated to be 13%, 11% and 10% respectively, before returning to constant long+ term industry growth rate of 6% per year. The firm’s cost of equity is 15%. i. What is the firm’s share price today (P0)? ii. What is the expected share price next year (P1)? iii. Calculate the dividend yield for year 2. iv. Calculate the current capital gains yield (year 1).

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/

Assume that your company is an all-equity firm with 250,000 shares outstanding. The company's EBIT is $2,500,000, and EBIT is expected to remain constant over time. The company pays out all of its earnings each year, so its earnings per share are equal to its dividends per share and this is currently $6.00 per share. The company's tax rate is 40 percent, its current cost of stock, Ks, is 8 percent, and its current stock price is $75 per share. Now assume that the company is considering issuing $3.75 million worth of bonds (at par) and using the proceeds for a stock repurchase. If issued, the bonds would have an estimated yield to maturity of 5 percent or interest of $187,500. The risk-free rate in the economy is 4 percent, and the market risk premium is 5 percent. The company's beta is currently 0.8, but its investment bankers estimate that the company's beta would rise to 0.9 if it proceeds with the recapitalization. Assume that the shares are repurchased at the equilibrium price that…

Mercury Satellite Corporation earned $20 million for the fiscal year ending yesterday. The firm's policy is to pay out 30 percent of its earnings as dividends. The remaining 70 percent of earnings is retained by the company for use in projects. The company has 2 million shares of common stock outstanding. The current stock price is $90. The historical return on equity (ROE) of 15 percent is expected to continue in the future. What is the required rate of return on the stock? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

Cute Camel Woodcraft Company just reported earnings after tax (also called net income) of $9,250,000 and a current stock price of $39.50 per share. The company is forecasting an increase of 25% for its after-tax income next year, but it also expects it will have to issue 3,000,000 new shares of stock (raising its shares outstanding from 5,500,000 to 8,500,000).

Pearl Corp. is expected to have an EBIT of $2,000,000 next year. Depreciation, the increase in net working capital, and capital spending are expected to be $160,000, $85,000, and $125,000, respectively. All are expected to grow at 16 percent per year for four years. The company currently has $10,500,000 in debt and 850,000 shares outstanding. At Year 5, you believe that the company's sales will be $14,850,000 and the appropriate price-sales ratio is 2.2. The company’s WACC is 8.5 percent and the tax rate is 22 percent.    What is the price per share of the company's stock? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)