Your firm is selling 6 million shares in an IPO. You are targeting an offer price of $19.13 per share. Your underwriters have proposed a spread of 6.9%, but you would like to lower it to 5.4%. However, you are concerned that if you do so, they will argue for a lower offer price. Given the potential savings from a lower spread, how much lower can the offer price go before you would have preferred to pay 6.9% to get $19.13 per share? The offer price would need to drop to $. (Round to the nearest cent.)

Suppose you are an enterprising and creative entrepreneur who is considering a takeover of Itronic Listening Co. (ILC). You believe that under your management Itronic could sustain a dividend growth rate of 6% into the foreseeable future (they just paid a dividend of $2). But the takeover and subsequent changes to ILC's business will add more risk, so you will require a 14% return on your investment. What is the maximum price you should be willing to pay for the ILC stock?   $23.50 $25.00 $26.50 $28.50 $29.50

There are two states of the world tomorrow. With probability 1/6, the economy will be good. With probability 5/6, the economy will be bad. IBM stock return will be 15% if the economy is good, 1% if the economy is bad. Dell stock return will be 25% if the economy is good, −10% if the economy is bad. You own $1,000 of IBM and $3,000 of Dell. What is the expected return of your portfolio? What are the covariance and correlation of IBM and Dell stock returns? What is the variance of your portfolio? Please answer fast i give you upvote.

Miss Good wants to buy BAD stock, which is selling for $5 per share. She can buy on margin. The initial margin requirement is 40%, and the maintenance margin is 30%. If the price decreases to $3.5, will Miss Good receive a margin call? If she does receive a margin call, but she does nothing (because she is traveling to the Moon). Then how many shares should the broker sell to keep the margin above the maintenance margin?

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You work for a leveraged buyout firm and are evaluating a potential buyout of UnderWater Company. UnderWater's stock price is $19 and it has 2.00 million shares outstanding. You believe that if you buy the company and replace its management, its value will increase by 39%. You are planning on doing a leveraged buyout of UnderWater and will offer $23.75 per share for control of the company. a. Assuming you get 50% control, what will happen to the price of non-tendered shares? b. Given the answer in part (a), will shareholders tender their shares, not tender their shares, or be indifferent? c. What will your gain from the transaction be? a. Assuming you get 50% control, what will happen to the price of non-tendered shares? Share price will be $. (Round to the nearest cent.) Incorrec

You are trying to value the stocks of Imaginary Inc. The company is currently involved ina very risky, but potentially very profitable project. In the preceding year, the companyhad earnings of $10 per share. You expect the earnings per share to grow to $15, $20, and$25 in the next three years, after which you expect a growth rate of 2%. The companyalways applies a plowback ratio of 60%. You estimate that a risk-adjusted discount rateof 10% is appropriate.a). What are the expected dividends per share in the next three years?b). What is the expected price per share three years from now?c). What is the fair stock price per share today?

You are now an equity analyst. We now find that the actual valuation of Company X is 130. Your manager suggests basing the price on a discounted dividend model and a discounted free cash flow valuation method. However, these two methods may produce very different estimates when applied to actual data. The discounted dividend model works out to a price of 60, while the discounted free cash flow valuation method works out to a price of 10. Question: Explain to your management why the two valuation methodologies provide different estimations. Specifically, discuss the assumptions implicit in the two methodologies, as well as the assumptions you made when doing your analysis. Why do these projections differ from Company X's current stock price?

Marseille Manufacturing (MM) is considering raising money through a rights offering. MM currently has 10 million shares outstanding selling for €20 per share.  Current shareholders will receive one right per share.  Five rights are required to buy one share for €15.  Will the rights be exercised?  How much money will MM raise if all rights are exercised?  What is the intrinsic value of a right (expected selling price for a single right)?

In the coming week, the outcomes from a class action lawsuit will result in a significant shock to the price of "M", which may be positive or negative. Thus, you decide to follow a Straddle strategy using a call option and a put option with strike 105, which have premiums of 16 and 9, respectively. If the stock price is 87 today, what is the total profit of your portfolio? Keep in mind that each call option contract controls 100 shares. Please round your answer to the nearest three decimals.