Company A has a market value of equity of $2,000 million and 80 million shares outstanding. Company B has a market value of equity of $400 million and 25 million shares outstanding. Company A announces at the beginning of 2019 that is going to acquire Company B.

The projected pre-tax gains in operating income (in millions of $) from the merger are:

	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Pre-tax Gains in Operating Income	12	16	28	38	45

The projected pre-tax gains in operating income are expected to grow at 4% after the year 2023. The company is using a discount rate of 8% to value the synergies. The marginal corporate tax rate is 35%.

Company A has decided to pay a $300 million premium for Company B. Assume that capital markets are efficient and that there is a 100% probability the deal will be closed.

1/ By how much the price per share of Company A would change at the time of the announcement of the acquisition?

2/ If Company A were to make a 100% stock offer for Company B, what would the exchange ratio be? Remember that the exchange ratio is the number of Company A’s shares that the shareholders of Company B will receive in exchange for each of their shares.

3/ If Company A were to offer 0.80 share of Company A for each share of company B, by how much the price per share of Company A would change at the time of the announcement of the acquisition?

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1 To calculate the price per share of Company A we need to calculate the value of the synergies T... View the full answer