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?

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The price to the public will be $22.11.

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Computation of expected market price per share

Earningspershare=EarningsOutstandingstock=$4,000,0004,000,000=$1

role="math" localid="1648505460723" Marketpricepershare=EPS×PE=$1×21=$21

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Computation of price to the public

Pricetopublic=Expectedmarketprice1-UnderwritingSpread=$211-0.05=$22.11

Hence, the offer price to the public will be $22.11.

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