Question: # 1 3 . Panther Corp. currently has two divisions - a health insurance division and a hospital division. Next year s expected revenue for

#13. Panther Corp. currently has two divisions - a health insurance division and a hospital division. Next years expected revenue for the health division is $630 mil. and the expected unlevered cash flow for the division is $420 mil. Next years expected revenue for the hospital division is $330 mil. and the expected unlevered cash flow for the division is $220 mil.. Revenues and cashflows for the health care division are expected to grow at a 4% rate per year in perpetuity and the revenues and cash flows for the hospital division are expected to grow at 3% rate per year in perpetuity. Both divisions have a weighted average cost of capital of 9%. The ratio of unlevered cashflows to revenues of both divisions is expected to remain constant over time. Panther Corp. has 200 mil. shares outstanding and $3 bil. in debt. Because of fractured relationships with doctors and competitive dynamics with other health insurers, management believes that if the hospital division is spun off, next years expected revenues for hospitals will experience a 22% increase relative to the divisions revenues without a spinoff. After this one-time sharp increase, hospital revenues will growth thereafter at the regular 3% rate. Nothing else will change in a spinoff, except there will be a one-time immediate cost to execute the spinoff of $95 million arising from legal, consulting, and banking fees. Suppose a rumor of this spinoff is leaked to the market and the market believes that there is an 80% chance that the rumor is valid and that the firm will soon announce the spinoff. What would you expect for the change in Panthers stock price when the rumor is first leaked to the market?

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