ADM 3350 Study Guide - Final Guide: Operating Lease, Call Option, Horizontal Integration
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Plant, Inc., is considering making an offer to purchase Palmer Corp. Plantâs vice president of finance has collected the following information: |
Plant | Palmer | |||||
Priceâearnings ratio | 15.5 | 11.1 | ||||
Shares outstanding | 1,600,000 | 850,000 | ||||
Earnings | $ | 4,640,000 | $ | 1,173,000 | ||
Dividends | $ | 1,060,000 | $ | 480,000 | ||
Plant also knows that securities analysts expect the earnings and dividends of Palmer to grow at a constant rate of 3 percent each year. Plant management believes that the acquisition of Palmer will provide the firm with some economies of scale that will increase this growth rate to 5 percent per year. |
a. | What is the value of Palmer to Plant? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
Value of Palmer | $ |
b. | What would Plantâs gain be from this acquisition? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
Gain | $ |
c. | If Plant were to offer $31 in cash for each share of Palmer, what would the NPV of the acquisition be? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
NPV | $ |
d. | What is the most Plant should be willing to pay in cash per share for the stock of Palmer? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
Maximum bid price | $ |
e. | If Plant were to offer 235,000 of its shares in exchange for the outstanding stock of Palmer, what would the NPV be? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
NPV | $ |
Plant's outside financial consultants think that the 5 percent growth rate is too optimistic and a 4 percent rate is more realistic. | |
f-1. | If Plant still offers $31 per share, what is the NPV with this new growth rate? (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
NPV | $ |
f-2. | If Plant still offers 235,000 shares, what is the NPV with this new growth rate? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
NPV | $ |
As financial manager of Corton Inc., you are investigating a possible acquisition of Denham. You have the basic data given in the following table.
Corton | Denham | |||||||
Forecast earnings per share | $ | 8.40 | $ | 1.00 | ||||
Forecast dividend per share | $ | 5.04 | $ | .53 | ||||
Number of shares | 2,700,000 | 2,300,000 | ||||||
Stock price | $ | 90 | $ | 20 | ||||
You estimate that investors expect a steady growth of about 6% in Denham’s earnings and dividends. Under new management, this growth rate would be increased to 6.67% per year without the need for additional capital.
Required:
- What is the gain from the acquisition?
- What is the cost of the acquisition if Corton pays $25 in cash for each share of Denham?
- What is the cost of the acquisition if Corton offers one share of Corton for every one shares of Denham?
- How would the cost of the cash offer change if the expected growth rate of Corton was not changed by the merger?
- How would the cost of the share offer change if the expected growth rate was not changed by the merger?