Plant Inc. is considering making an offer to purchase Palmer Corp. Plant's VP has collected the following information:

Plant Palmer

Price-earnings Ratio 14 11

Shares Outstanding 1,000,000 620,000

Earnings $1,800,000 $580,000

Dividends (total) $600,000 $290,000

Plant also knows that analysts expect the earnings and dividends of palmer to grow at a constant rate of 5% each year. Plant's management believes that the acquisition of Palmer will provide their firm with some economies of scale that will increase this growth rate further to 7% per year.

Assume that Plant has hired you as an Investment Banker to help them with the following questions.

a)What is the value of Palmer to Plant?

b)What would be Plant's gain from this acquisition

c)If Plant were to offer $17 in cash for each share of Palmer, what would the NPV of the acquisition be?

d)What should be the maximum price per share (in cash) that Plant should be willing to pay for Palmer's shares?