Acquiring Corporation is considering a takeover of Takeover Target Incorporated. Acquiring has 28 million shares outstanding, whic sell for $25 each. Takeover Target has 14 million shares outstanding, which sell for $13 each. If the merger gains are estimated at $4 million, what is the highest price per share that Acquiring should be willing to pay to Takeover Target shareholders? Highest price per share

Acquiring Corporation is considering a takeover of Takeover Target Incorporated. Acquiring has 28 million shares outstanding, whic sell for $25 each. Takeover Target has 14 million shares outstanding, which sell for $13 each. If the merger gains are estimated at $4 million, what is the highest price per share that Acquiring should be willing to pay to Takeover Target shareholders? Highest price per share

EBK CONTEMPORARY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

14th Edition

ISBN:9781337514835

Author:MOYER

Publisher:MOYER

Chapter23: Corporate Restructuring

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 7P

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

Acquiring Corp. is considering a takeover of Takeover Target Inc. Acquiring has 10 million shares outstanding, which sell for R40 each. Takeover Target has 5 million shares outstanding, which sell for R20 each. If the merger gains are estimated at R25 million, what is the highest price per share that Acquiring should be willing to pay to Takeover Target shareholders?
ABC has 1.00 million shares outstanding, each of which has a price of $17. It has made a takeover offer of XYZ Corporation, which has 1.00 million shares outstanding, and a price per share of $2.52. Assume that the takeover will occur with certainty and all market participants know this. Furthermore, there are no synergies to merging the two firms. a. Assume ABC made a cash offer to purchase XYZ for $3.41 million. What happens to the price of ABC and XYZ on the announcement? What premium over the current market price does this offer represent? b. Assume ABC makes a stock offer with an exchange ratio of 0.14. What happens to the price of ABC and XYZ this time? What premium over the current market price does this offer represent? c. At current market prices, both offers are offers to purchase XYZ for $3.41 million. Does that mean that your answers to parts (a) and (b) must be identical? Explain.
Firm X is going to acquire Firm Y. The acquisition will be done via a share exchange, whereby Firm X will exchange two of its shares for every one of Firm Y’s shares. Synergy is $1,500,000 in total. Firm X (Bidder) Firm Y (Target) Shares Outstanding 1,500,000 150,000 Price per Share $50 $80 Earnings 2,400,000 1,950,000 43. What is the takeover premium in dollars? (Tip: round the share price of the combined firm to two decimal places in calculating your answer.) A) $5,700,000 B) $1,500,000 C) $2,751,000 D) $2,500,000 E) $3,000,000
33) can you please help with this question?
NewCo is trying to fully acquire OldCo in an all cash offer. NewCo will assume all the debt of OldCo as part of the acquisition. The expected synergies from the acquisition are $700 million. Before the transaction OldCo has 25 million shares outstanding, a share price of $65, and outstanding debt of $500 million (no excess cash). Is the following statement true or false? If NewCo offers $65 per share of OldCo and the acquisition is successful, the shareholders of NewCo will have captured the full value of the synergies of this transaction. Pick One: True False
Denali Inc. is acquiring Whitney Corp. at an exchange ratio of 2:1. After the deal is announced, Denali’s stock price is $25 and Whitney’s stock price is $47. Create a trade that would take advantage of the merger arbitrage opportunity, starting with 100 shares of Whitney’s stock. Show in detail the profit from your portfolio if between today and the deal being completed, Denali’s stock price falls to $20.
Gobi Desserts is bidding to take over Universal Puddings. Gobi has 3,500 shares outstanding, selling at $55 per share. Universal has 2,500 shares outstanding, selling at $22.50 a share. Gobi estimates the economic gain from the merger to be $22,500. Required: If Universal can be acquired for $25 a share, what is the NPV of the merger to Gobi? What will Gobi sell for when the market learns that it plans to acquire Universal for $25 a share? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) What will Universal sell for? Assume that the market expects the merger to go through without any further bidding. What are the percentage gains to the shareholders of each firm? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 1 decimal place.) Now suppose that the merger takes place through an exchange of stock. On the basis of the premerger prices of the firms, Gobi sells for $55, so instead of paying $25 cash, Gobi issues 0.45 of its shares for every Universal share acquired. What will be…
Consider the following information for the two companies, SpaceC and Alexa: SpaceC Alexa Shares outstanding 100 50 Price per share $50 $30 SpaceC is considering acquiring Alexa. It estimates that in doing so the synergistic benefit would be $200. Alexa says that it would accept an offer to be sold at $35 per share. Should SpaceC proceed and purchase Alexa? At what price would SpaceC be indifferent to making the acquisition of Alexa? Assuming the acquisition was at $35, what level of synergies (not $200) would there have to be to make the acquisition make sense for SpaceC? ( explain perfectly with step by step and type the answers) .
Required: i)Determine the gain for World Cruise Bhd. when it acquires Sunrise Cruise Bhd. (ii) World Cruise Bhd. is proposing to finance by cash the deal to purchase all of Sunrise Cruise Bhd.’s issued shares and is offering a premium of 25% over the market price of Sunrise Cruise Bhd.’s shares.Calculate the cost of acquisition of Sunrise Cruise Bhd. (iii) Suggest what should be recommended by Jack Pang to the Board of Directors on the proposed acquisition of Sunrise Cruise Bhd. and why Sunrise’s shareholders should accept the offer.
Firm B is willing to be acquired by firm A at a price of $16 a share in either cash or stock. The incremental value of the proposed acquisition is estimated at $180,000. Number of shares Firm A: 50000 Firm B: 80000 Price per share Firm A: $18.00 Firm B: $14.00 Debt A: $0 B: $0 What is the value of firm B to firm A?
Firm X has 100 shares outstanding at $20 per share. Firm Y also has 100 shares outstanding with a current price of $5 per share. Firm X offers Y's shareholders $8 per share in cash. Firm X's management expects the combined value of the firm to be $3,000. The expected gain and the NPV of the merger to X are, respectively, closest to: a) $500 and $300 b) $300 and $200 c) $500 and $200 d) $300 and $300
I dont understand part d. Please expalin in simple steps