Exam 14: Capital Structure: Basic Concepts

Brown's is an unlevered firm with a total market value of $368,000 and 18,400 shares of stock outstanding.The firm has expected EBIT of $17,500 if the economy is normal and $19,000 if the economy booms.The firm is considering a bond issue of $120,000 with an attached interest rate of 5.9 percent.The bond proceeds will be used to repurchase shares.The tax rate is 34 percent.What will be the earnings per share after the repurchase if the economy booms?

Why does MM Proposition I,without taxes,not hold in the presence of corporate taxation?

LT Transport is an unlevered firm with a total market value of $672,000 and 50,000 shares of stock outstanding.The firm has expected EBIT of $64,500 if the economy is normal and $73,000 if the economy booms.The firm is considering a bond issue of $33,600 with an attached interest rate of 7.6 percent.The bond proceeds will be used to repurchase shares.The tax rate is 34 percent.What is the percentage increase in EPS if the economy booms rather than be normal?

Sun Sports has an unlevered cost of capital of 14.3 percent,a cost of debt of 8.7 percent,and a tax rate of 35 percent.What is the target debt-equity ratio if the targeted levered cost of equity is 16.34 percent?

MM Proposition II,without taxes,is the proposition that

A firm has a debt-equity ratio of 1.Its cost of equity is 17.4 percent and its pretax cost of debt is 7.2 percent.Assume there are no taxes or other imperfections.What would be its cost of equity if the debt-equity ratio were zero?

The Outlet has an unlevered cost of capital of 15.1 percent,a tax rate of 34 percent,and expected earnings before interest and taxes of $26,100.The company has $25,000 in bonds outstanding that have a coupon rate of 7.6 percent.The bonds are selling at par.What is the cost of equity?

In an EPS-EBI graphical relationship,the debt line and the no debt line intersect.Which one of these is true at the intersection point?

JL Lumber has a debt-equity ratio of 0.47.The firm's required return on assets is 11.8 percent and its current cost of equity is 14.23 percent.What is the firm's pretax cost of debt? Ignore taxes.

The Border Crossing has no debt and a cost of capital of 12.2 percent.The shareholders would prefer to earn rate of return of 16.4 percent.What debt-equity ratio will be required to meet the shareholder's preference if the firm pays no taxes and can borrow at 6.2 percent?

You are writing a comparison of an all-equity structure to a levered capital structure for a firm.It is accurate to state in this comparison that

Which one of these represents the difference between the value of a levered and an unlevered firm?

MM Proposition I,without taxes,illustrates that

A levered firm has a pretax cost of debt of 6.8 percent and an unlevered cost of capital of 13.4 percent.The tax rate is 34 percent,and the cost of equity is 16.06 percent.What is the debt-equity ratio?

Which one of these presents the idea that the cost of equity is a positive linear function of capital structure?

Simpson's is an all-equity firm that has 400,000 shares of stock outstanding.The company is in the process of borrowing $1.5 million at 5 percent interest to repurchase 30,000 of the firm's outstanding shares.Ignore taxes.What will be the market value of equity after the repurchase?

Wilt's has a debt-equity ratio of 0.48,a pretax cost of debt of 7.3 percent,and an unlevered cost of capital of 14.1 percent.What is its levered cost of equity if there are no taxes or other imperfections?

Which one of these statements is correct?

Managers should select the capital structure that

The use of leverage by a firm