Capital Structure Essay

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Fin 3322: Cashman Capital Structure In-class 1. The total amount of debt in the company is $1 million and expects to have the same amount of debt forever. If the company has before tax cost of debt of 10% and corporate tax rate of 35%, what is the present value of tax shield? 1,000,000 * 0.35 = 350,000 2. Health and Wealth Company is financed entirely by common stock which is priced to offer a 15% expected return. If the company repurchases 25% of the common stock and substitutes an equal value of debt yielding 6%, what is the expected return on the common stock after refinancing? (Ignore taxes.) 0.15 = (0.75) * X + (0.25) * (0.06) 0.15 = 0.75X + 0.015 0.135 = 0.75X X = 0.18 = 18% OR Replaces 25% of its equity with debt → D/V = ¼ so D = 1, V = 4 → E = 3 RE = Ra + (D/E) *(Ra ( Rd ) X = 0.15 + (1/3) * (0.15 – 0.06) X = 0.15 + 0.03 X = 0.18 = 18% 3. The Backwoods Lumber Co. has a debt-equity ratio of .80. The firm’s required return on assets is 12% and its cost of equity is 15.68%. What is the pre-tax cost of debt based on MM Proposition II with no taxes? D/E = 0.8 = 8/10 → D = 8, E = 10, and V = 18 0.12 = (10/18) * 0.1568 + (8/18) * Rd 0.12 = 0.0871 + (8/18) * Rd 0.0329 = (8/18) * Rd Rd = 0.074 = 7.4% OR 0.1568 = 0.12 + (0.12 – Rd)*0.80 Rd = .074 = 7.40% 4. Gail’s Dance Studio is currently an all equity firm that has 80,000 shares of stock outstanding with a market price of $42 a share. The current cost of equity is 12% and the tax rate is 34%. Gail is considering adding $1 million of debt with a coupon rate of 8% to her capital structure. The debt will be sold at par value. What is the levered value of the equity? VU = 80,000 * 42 = 3,360,000 VL = 3,360,000 + (0.34 *

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