Bella Vista is an all equity firm with 45,000 shares of stock outstanding at a market price of $50 a share. The company's EBIT are $128,000. BV has decided to add leverage to its financial operations by issuing $250,000 of debt at 8 percent interest. The debt will be used to repurchase shares of stock. Find out, a. BV’s EPS with and without debt, b. BV’s value of stock and value of debt after leverage. You own 400 shares of BV’S stock. You can also loan out funds at 8 percent interest rate. How many shares of BV’s stock must you sell to offset the leverage that BV’s is assuming? Assume you loan out all the funds you receive from the sale of stock. Ignore taxes

Bella Vista is an all equity firm with 45,000 shares of stock outstanding at a market price of $50 a share. The company's EBIT are $128,000. BV has decided to add leverage to its financial operations by issuing $250,000 of debt at 8 percent interest. The debt will be used to repurchase shares of stock. Find out, a. BV’s EPS with and without debt, b. BV’s value of stock and value of debt after leverage. You own 400 shares of BV’S stock. You can also loan out funds at 8 percent interest rate. How many shares of BV’s stock must you sell to offset the leverage that BV’s is assuming? Assume you loan out all the funds you receive from the sale of stock. Ignore taxes

Financial Management: Theory & Practice

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Chapter15: Capital Structure Decisions

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