You have been called in as a consultant for Herberts a sporting goods retail firm, which is
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The firms income statement is as follows:
Revenues .............. $250
Cost of goods sold (COGS) ...... $175
Depreciation ........... $25
EBIT .............. $50
Long-term interest .......... $10
EBT .............. $40
Taxes ............... $16
Net income ............ $24
The firm currently has 100 shares outstanding, selling at a market price of $5 per share and the bonds are selling at par. The firms current beta is 1.12, and the risk-free rate is 7%.
a. What is the firms current cost of equity?
b. What is the firms current cost of debt?
c. What is the firms current weighted average cost of capital?
d. Assume that management of Herberts is considering doing a debt-equity swap (i.e., borrowing enough money to buy back seventy shares of stock at $5 per share). It is believed that this swap will lower the firms rating to C and raise the interest rate on the companys debt to 15%.
e. What is the firms new cost of equity?
f. What is the effective tax rate (for calculating the after-tax cost of debt) after the swap? What is the firms new cost of capital?
Balance sheet is a statement of the financial position of a business that list all the assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity and shareholder’s equity at a particular point of time. A balance sheet is also called as a “statement of financial...
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