The Day Company and the Knight Company are identical in every respect except that Day is unlevered. Financial information for the two firms appears here. All earnings streams are perpetuities. Neither firm pays taxes. Both firms distribute all earnings available to common stockholders immediately.

a. An investor who can borrow at 6 percent per year wishes to purchase 5 percent of Knight’s equity. Can he increase his dollar return by purchasing 5 percent of Day’s equity if he borrows so that the initial net costs of the two strategies are the same?

b. Given the two investment strategies in (a), which will investors choose? When will this process cease?

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Projected operating income Year-end interest on debt Market value of stock Market value of debt $ Day 325,000 2,100.000 Knight $325,000 48,000 1,500,000 800,000