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The Nantucket Nugget is unlevered and is valued at $640,000. Nantucket is currently deciding whether including debt in its capital structure would increase its value. The current of cost of equity is 12%. Under consideration is issuing $300,000 in new debt with an 8% interest rate. Nantucket would repurchase $300,000 of stock with the proceeds of the debt issue. There are currently 32,000 shares outstanding and its effective marginal tax bracket is 34%. If cost of equity increases to 13.79%, what will Nantucket's new WACC be after debt issue?

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A firm currently has equity with a market value of $600,000,000 and debt with a market value of $500,000,000. The firm has 10,000,000 shares outstanding. The bonds offer investors a return of 8%. The firm is contemplating issuing $300,000,000 in new equity and using the proceeds to repurchase $300,000,000 of the firms debt. The corporate tax rate is 35, the effective personal tax rate on equity income is 10% and the effective tax rate on interest income is 20%.

a). What will the firms stock price be immediately after the firm announces its refinancing plan?

b). How many shares will the firm issue?

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d). Calculate the market value of the firm's (i) debt and (ii) equity immediately after the refinancing plan is announced (but before it is actually excuted)

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a). What will the firms stock price be immediately after the firm announces its refinancing plan?

b). How many shares will the firm issue?

c). What is the market value of the firm's (i) debt and (ii) equity immediately before the refinancing plan is announced?

d). Calculate the market value of the firm's (i) debt and (ii) equity immediately after the refinancing plan is announced (but before it is actually excuted) e). Calculate the market value of the firm's (i) debt and (ii) equity after the equity issue and bond repurchase are completed.

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b.) Altec is considering restucturing its capital structure to 40% debt, 60% equity, based on market values. Altec is planning to use the new funds to replace the old debt and the rest to repurchase stock. It is estimated theat the increase in riskiness resulting from the leverage increase would cause the required rate of return on debt to rise to 8%, while the required rate of return on equity would rise to 12%. If this plan were carried out:

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