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Assume you have just been hired as a business manager of pizzapalace.
EBIT was $ 50 million last year not expected to grow.
Currently financed with all Equity.
10 million shares outstanding.
You suggested to your boss to use the debt financing. Heapproved.

Estimated costs of debt for firm are below:

Percent Financed with Debt,wd rd
0% -
20 8.0%
30 8.5%
40 10.0%
50 12.0%

If the company were to recapitalize then debt would be issued andthe funds received would be used to repurchase stock.
federal tax bracket is 40%.
beta is 1.0
risk free rate is 6%
market risk premium is 6%

Required:
a. provide a brief overview of capital structure effects. be sureto identify the ways in which capital structure can affect the WACCand FCF
b. 1. what is business risk? what factors influence a firm'sbusiness risk?
2. what is operating leverage, and how does it affect a firm'sbusiness risk? show the operating break even point if a company hasfixed costs of $ 200, a sales price of $15.00 and variable costs of$ 10.00

c. develop an example to present to pizza palace use these twohypothetical firms:
Firm U
uses no debt financing
assets is $ 20,000
40% tax rate
EBIT is $3,000

Firm L:
uses debt financing
$ 10,000 of 12% debt
assets is $ 20,000
40% tax rate
EBIT is $ 3,000

1. construct partial income statement which starts with EBIT forboth firms
2.calculate ROE for both
3. what is the impact of financial leverage on both firms?
d. Explain the difference between financial risk and businessrisk.
e. what happens to ROE for Firm U and firm L if EBIT falls to $2000? what does this imply about the impact of leverage on risk andreturn?
f. what does capital structure theory attempt to do? what lessonscan be learned from capital structure theory? address MMmodels
g. what does the empirical evidence say about capital structuretheory? what are the implications for managers?
h. with the preceeding points in mind, now consider the optimalcapital structure for Pizza Palace.
1. for each capital structure under construction, calculate thelevered beta, the cost of equity and the WACC.
2. calculate the corporate value for each capital structure.
i. Describe the recapitalization process and apply it to PizzaPalace. Calculate the resulting value of the debt that will beissued, the resulting market value of equity the price per share,the number of shares repurchased, and the remaining shares.Considering only the capital structure under analysis, what isPizza Palace optimal structure?



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