A project costs $1 million and has a base-case NPV of exactly zero (NPV = 0). Note: A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Enter your answers in dollars, not millions of dollars. If the firm invests, it has to raise $680,000 by a stock issue. Issue costs are 19.45% of net proceeds. What is the project’s APV? If the firm invests, there are no issue costs, but its debt capacity increases by $680,000. The present value of interest tax shields on this debt is $94,000. What is the project’s APV?

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A project costs $1 million and has a base-case NPV of exactly zero (NPV = 0). Note: A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Enter your answers in dollars, not millions of dollars. If the firm invests, it has to raise $680,000 by a stock issue. Issue costs are 19.45% of net proceeds. What is the project’s APV? If the firm invests, there are no issue costs, but its debt capacity increases by $680,000. The present value of interest tax shields on this debt is $94,000. What is the project’s APV? 

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