California Real Estate, Inc., expects to earn $71 million per year in perpetuity if it does not

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California Real Estate, Inc., expects to earn $71 million per year in perpetuity if it does not undertake any new projects. The firm has an opportunity to invest $16 million today and $5 million in one year in real estate. The new investment will generate annual earnings of $11 million in perpetuity, beginning two years from today. The firm has 15 million shares of common stock outstanding, and the required rate of return on the stock is 12 percent. Land investments are not depreciable. Ignore taxes.
a. What is the price of a share of stock if the firm does not undertake the new investment?
b. What is the value of the investment?
c. What is the per-share stock price if the firm undertakes the investment?

Common Stock
Common stock is an equity component that represents the worth of stock owned by the shareholders of the company. The common stock represents the par value of the shares outstanding at a balance sheet date. Public companies can trade their stocks on...
Perpetuity
Perpetuity refers to payments that are made without an end or maturity date. A perpetuity is classified as an annuity, which is something that earns a dividend or receives a payment at a regularly scheduled interval, generally yearly. So, how...
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Corporate Finance

ISBN: 978-0077861759

10th edition

Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe

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