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»lwin 3 4 [QlWCODn Stephenson Real Estate Recapitalization Stephenson Real Estate Company was founded 25 years ago by the current CEO, Robert Stephenson. The company purchases real estate, induding land and buildings, and rents the property to tenants. The company has shown a profit every year for the past 18 years, and the shareholders are satisfied with the company’s management. Prior to founding Stephenson Real Esiate, Robert was the founder and CEO of a failed alpaca farming operation. The resulting bankruptcy made him exiremely averse to debt financing. As a result, the company is entirely equity financed, with 8.7 milion shares of common stock outstanding. The stock currently trades at $346.50 per share. Stephenson is evaluating a plan to purchase a huge tract of land in the southeastern United States for $65 milion. The land wil subsequantly be leased to tenant farmers. This purchase is expecied to increase Stephenson’s annual pretax eamings by 314 milion in perpetuity. Kim Weyand, the company's new CFO, has been put in charge of the project. Kim has determined that the comparny's current cost of capital is 12.5 percent. She feels that the compary would be more valuable if it included debt in #ts capital structure, so she is evaluating whether the company should issue debt to entirely finance the project. Based on some conversations with investment banks, she thinks that the company can issue bonds at par value with a coupon rate of 8 percent. From her analysis, she also believes that a capital structure in the range of 70 percent equity/30 percent debt would be optimal. If the company goes beyond 30 percent debt, its bonds would carry a lower rating and a much higher coupon because the possibiity of financial distress and the associated costs would rise sharply. Stephenscon has a 21 percent corporate lax rate (state anel fndemral) Inpwt avea: Shares cutstanding Share price $ Purchase price of land $ Perpetual eamings increase $ 14,000,000 Current cost of capital 12.50% Cost of new debt 8% Optimal equity weight 70% Optimal debt weight 30% Tax rate 21% Oulput area: 50N o maxemize #5 market valus, would you recomme issue debt or equity to finance the land purchase? Explain. 2) Assets Equity Totd assets ? Debt & Equity ) 2) Perpetual v eamings NE o purchase b) Balance Sheet Old assals NPV of project 4 Equity Totd assets ? Debt & Equity M s price Shaes 1o sue c) Balance Sheet Cash Old assals NPV of project Equity Totd assets Debt & Equity Total shares outstanding Share price d) PV of eamings increase Balance Sheet Ol assels PV of praject Equity Totd assets ? Debt & Equity 4) 2) Value of levered company <= VL = VUSTC'D Note®: TC = Tax rate b) Balance Sheet Value unlevered Debt Tax shield value Equity Totd assets ? Debt & Equity Stock shar pece I5) Which method of financing maximizes the per share stock price of Stephenson’s equity?
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