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Chapter 5: 10DQ (page 493)
How might a leveraged buyout eventually lead to high returns for a company?
In a leveraged buyout, the company sells assets and reduces its debts. Further, the products are sold, and redeployment of assets takes place which leads to a high return for a company.
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Question: The Bowman Corporation has a \(18 million bond obligation outstanding, which it is considering refunding. Though the bonds were initially issued at 10 percent, the interest rates on similar issues have declined to 8.5 percent. The bonds were originally issued for 20 years and have 10 years remaining. The new issue would be for 10 years. There is a 9 percent call premium on the old issue. The underwriting cost on the new \)18,000,000 issue is \(530,000, and the underwriting cost on the old issue was \)380,000. The company is in a 35 percent tax bracket, and it will use an 8 percent discount rate (rounded after-tax cost of debt) to analyze the refunding decision.
c. Calculate the net present value.
Discuss how an underwriting syndicate decreases risk for each underwriter and at the same time facilitates the distribution process.
Solar Energy Corp. has $4million in earnings with 4 million shares outstanding. Investment bankers think the stock can justify P/E ratio of 21. Assume the underwriting spread is 5 percent. What should the price to the public be?
Midland Corporation has a net income of \(19 million and 4 million shares outstanding. Its common stock is currently selling for \)48 per share. Midland plans to sell common stock to set up a major new production facility with a net cost of \(21,120,000. The production facility will not produce a profit for one year, and then it is expected to earn a 13 percent return on the investment. Stanley Morgan and Co., an investment banking firm, plans to sell the issue to the public for \)44 per share with a spread of 4 percent.
e. Are the shareholders better off because of the sale of stock and the resultant investment? What other financing strategy could the company have tried to increase earnings per share?
What are three forms of corporate securities discussed in the chapter?
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