The common stock and debt of XYZ Co. are valued $60 million and $40 million respectively. Currently cost of equity of the company is 18% and its cost of debt is 9%. If the company issues an additional $20 million of common stock and uses all of this cash to retire debt, what will be the new required rate of return on company’s equity? Assume change in leverage does not affect risk of debt and there are no taxes.

Lester's has expected earnings before interest and taxes of $57,800, an unlevered cost of capital of 10.2 percent, and debt with both a book and face value of $84,000. The debt has a coupon rate of 8.35 percent and the tax rate is 21 percent. What is the value of this company? $376,544 $596,973 $648,293 $456,666 O $389,304

Hawar International is a shipping firm with a current share price of $4.50 and 10 million shares outstanding. Suppose Hawar announces plans to lower its corporate taxes by borrowing $10 million and repurchasing shares. a. With perfect capital​ markets, what will the share price be after this​ announcement? b. Suppose that Hawar pays a corporate tax rate of 40%​, and that shareholders expect the change in debt to be permanent. If the only imperfection is corporate​ taxes, what will the share price be after this​ announcement? c. Suppose the only imperfections are corporate taxes and financial distress costs. If the share price rises to $4.55 after this​ announcement, what is the PV of financial distress costs Hawar will incur as the result of this new​ debt?       Question content area bottom Part 1 a. With perfect capital​ markets, what will the share price be after this​ announcement?   With perfect capital​ markets, the share price will be ​$enter your response here per share

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Fujita, Incorporated, has no debt outstanding and a total market value of $422,400. Earnings before interest and taxes, EBIT, are projected to be $55,000 if economic conditions are normal. If there is strong expansion in the economy, then EBIT will be 14 percent higher. If there is a recession, then EBIT will be 20 percent lower. The company is considering a $205,000 debt issue with an interest rate of 6 percent. The proceeds will be used to repurchase shares of stock. There are currently 8,800 shares outstanding. Ignore taxes for questions (a) and (b). Assume the company has a market-to-book ratio of 1.0 and the stock price remains constant. a-1. Calculate return on equity (ROE) under each of the three economic scenarios before any debt is issued. (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) a-2. Calculate the percentage changes in ROE when the economy expands or enters a recession. (A negative answer should be…