What is the firm’s weighted average cost of capital? b. Suppose the firm can increase its debt so that its capital structure has 50% debt, based on market values (it will issue debt and buy back stock). At this level of debt, its cost of equity rises to 17.5% and its interest rate on all debt will rise to 13% (it will have to call and refund the old debt). What is the WACC under this capital structure? What is the total value? How much debt will it issue, and what is the stock price after the repurchase? How many shares will remain outstanding after the repurchase?

The Rogers Company is currently in this situation: (1) EBIT = $4.7 million; (2) tax rate, T = 40%; (3) value of debt, D = $2 million; (4) rd= 10%; (5) rs = 15%; (6) shares of stock outstanding, n = 600,000; and stock price, P = $30. The firm’s market is stable and it expects no growth, so all earnings are paid out as dividends. The debt consists of perpetual bonds. What is the total market value of the firm’s stock, S, and the firm’s total market value, V? What is the firm’s weighted average cost of capital? Suppose the firm can increase its debt so that its capital structure has 50% debt, based on market values (it will issue debt and buy back stock). At this level of debt, its cost of equity rises to 18.5% and its interest rate on all debt will rise to 12% (it will have to call and refund the old debt). What is the WACC under this capital structure? What is the total value? How much debt will it issue, and what is the stock price after the repurchase? How many shares will remain…

Prokter and Gramble (PKGR) has historically maintained a debt-equity ratio of approximately 0.16. Its current stock price is $45 per share, with 2.3 billion shares outstanding. The firm enjoys very stable demand for its products, and consequently it has a low equity beta of 0.4 and can borrow at 4.0%, just 20 basis points over the risk-free rate of 3.8%. The expected return of the market is 9.6%, and PKGR's tax rate is 22%. a. This year, PKGR is expected to have free cash flows of $5.5 billion. What constant expected growth rate of free cash flow is consistent with its current stock price? b. PKGR believes it can increase debt without any serious risk of distress or other costs. With a higher debt-equity ratio of 0.4, it believes its borrowing costs will rise only slightly to 4.3%. If PKGR announces that it will raise its debt-equity ratio to 0.4 through a leveraged recap, determine the increase or decrease in the stock price that would result from the anticipated tax savings. a. This…

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.