The Perpetual Motion Machine (PMM) makes children's toys and it has survived the pandemic. The new...

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The Perpetual Motion Machine (PMM) makes children's toys and it has survived the pandemic. The new CEO of PMM, Ms. Bickering, is considering a change in capital structure and you have been asked to help her out in estimating the effect on PMM's value, cost of capital, etc. PMM currently maintains a constant debt to value ratio of 25% for a rating of AAA. Ms. Bickering wants to maintain a debt to value ratio of 50%. You estimate this will lower its rating to A but still keep the possibility of financial distress remote and negligible. The estimated tax rate for PMM is 20%. Its estimated free cash flows next year is $90 million expected to grow at 2%. PMM's current weighted average cost of capital is 12%. You have gathered the following market information on ratings and average credit spreads for long term corporate bonds: You also estimate the expected market risk premium to be 6% and the yield on long term US treasuries to be 5%. Fill out the matrket value, beta and return balance sheets for PMM at the current and target capital structure. Provide super-brief explanations of why a number changes (if it does) as a result of the capital structure change (e.g., by MM-1). You can round to the nearest million for a dollar value and to the second decimal place for a rate of return. SHOW YOUR CALCULATIONS CLEARLY (if you want points). Current: Current: Current: Assets U = PVTS = V = Assets Bu = = BTS = By = Assets Rattings AAA AA A Credit spread 50bp 100bp 150bp TU = TTS = rv = Liab. & Eq. D = E = V = Liab. & Eq. BD = BE = By = = Liab. & Eq. TD= TE= rv = Target: Target: Target: U = PVTS = V = Assets Bu BTS = = By: Assets = Assets TU = TTS = rv = Liab. & Eq. D= E = V = Liab. & Eq. BD = BE = By = Liab. & Eq. TD= TE= rv = The Perpetual Motion Machine (PMM) makes children's toys and it has survived the pandemic. The new CEO of PMM, Ms. Bickering, is considering a change in capital structure and you have been asked to help her out in estimating the effect on PMM's value, cost of capital, etc. PMM currently maintains a constant debt to value ratio of 25% for a rating of AAA. Ms. Bickering wants to maintain a debt to value ratio of 50%. You estimate this will lower its rating to A but still keep the possibility of financial distress remote and negligible. The estimated tax rate for PMM is 20%. Its estimated free cash flows next year is $90 million expected to grow at 2%. PMM's current weighted average cost of capital is 12%. You have gathered the following market information on ratings and average credit spreads for long term corporate bonds: You also estimate the expected market risk premium to be 6% and the yield on long term US treasuries to be 5%. Fill out the matrket value, beta and return balance sheets for PMM at the current and target capital structure. Provide super-brief explanations of why a number changes (if it does) as a result of the capital structure change (e.g., by MM-1). You can round to the nearest million for a dollar value and to the second decimal place for a rate of return. SHOW YOUR CALCULATIONS CLEARLY (if you want points). Current: Current: Current: Assets U = PVTS = V = Assets Bu = = BTS = By = Assets Rattings AAA AA A Credit spread 50bp 100bp 150bp TU = TTS = rv = Liab. & Eq. D = E = V = Liab. & Eq. BD = BE = By = = Liab. & Eq. TD= TE= rv = Target: Target: Target: U = PVTS = V = Assets Bu BTS = = By: Assets = Assets TU = TTS = rv = Liab. & Eq. D= E = V = Liab. & Eq. BD = BE = By = Liab. & Eq. TD= TE= rv =

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