Consider the following two merger candidates. The merger is for diversification purposes only with no synergies involved. Risk-free rate is 4%. Market value of assets Company A $700 Face value of zero coupon debt Debt maturity Asset return standard deviation $700 4 years 50% The asset return standard deviation for the combined firm is 20%. How much more value will debtholders collectively receive after the merge(keep two decimal places)?
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- KT corporation has announced plans to acquire MJ corporation. KT is trading for $45 per share and MJ is trading for $25 per share, with a premerger value for MJ of $3 billion dollars. If the projected synergies from the merger are $750 million, what is the maximum exchange ratio that KT could offer in a stock swap and still generate a positive NPV? It is closest to: Answer choices: A) 0.75 B) 3.30 C) 2.25 D) 1.30he NFF Corporation has announced plans to acquire LE Corporation. NFF is trading for $ 64 per share, and LE is trading for $ 13 per share, implying a pre-merger value of LE of approximately $ 6.7 billion. If the projected synergies are $ 2.07 billion, what is the maximum exchange ratio NFF could offer in a stock swap and still generate a positive NPV? Question content area bottom Part 1 The maximum exchange ratio NFF could offer in a stock swap and still generate a positive NPV is enter your response here. (Round to three decimal places.)Hastings Corporation is interested in acquiring Visscher Corporation. Assume that the riskfreerate of interest is 4%, and the market risk premium is 5%. Hastings estimates that if it acquires Visscher, the year-end dividendwill remain at $1.99 a share, but synergies will enable the dividend to grow at a constantrate of 7% a year (instead of the current 5%). Hastings also plans to increase the debt ratioof what would be its Visscher subsidiary; the effect of this would be to raise Visscher’s betato 1.05. What is the per-share value of Visscher to Hastings Corporation?
- companies can borrow at an 8 percent interest rate. The risk-free rate is 6 percent, and the expected return on the market is 13 percent. Bryce believes the current cost of capital for Birdie Golf is 11 percent. The beta for Hybrid Golf stock at its current capital structure is 1.30.Bryce has asked you to analyze the financial aspects of the potential merger. Specifically, he has asked you to answer the following questions:1. Suppose Hybrid shareholders will agree to a merger price of $63.25 per share. Should Birdie proceed with the merger?2. What is the highest price per share that Birdie should be willing to pay for Hybrid?3. Suppose Birdie is unwilling to pay cash for the merger but will consider a stock exchange. What exchange ratio would make the merger terms equivalent to the original merger price of $63.25 per share?4. What is the highest exchange ratio Birdie would be willing to pay and still undertake the merger?The answer is 12.7% but i need an explanation.Alpha is considering purchasing a competitor, Beta. Projected cash flows as a result of the merger are: Year 1 $1,450,000 Year 2 $1,750,000 Year 3 $2,000,000 Year 4 $2,500,000. In addition, Beta's year 4 cashflows are expected to grow at a constant rate of 6% after year 4. Beta's post merger beta is estimated to be 1.2 and its post-merger tax rate is 40%. The risk-free rate is 8% and the market risk premium is 4%. REQUIRED: 1. Compute for the maximum bid price that Alpha can offer in the acquisition. 2. How much is the net advantage/disadvantage to Alpha if it acquires Beta's 10,000,000 shares at the current market price of $9.
- As a merger arbitrageur you are considering an investment in two target companies of a merger, A and B. The deal spread for A is 16 % and for B the deal spread is 8 %. Which of the following statements is correct? O A. If both deals fail, then A will have a more negative return than B. O B. If both deals fail, then B will have more negative return than A.You have been asked to assess the impact of a proposed acquisition on the beta of a firm and have been provided the following information on the two firms involved in the deal: The risk-free rate is 4% and the equity risk premium is 6%. Now assume that Acquirer plans to retire all of Target’s debt and that it will be able to buy Target’s equity at the current market price. If Acquirer would like to have a levered beta of 1.35 for the combined firm after the transaction, estimate how much new debt it will need to raise to finish this acquisition.Tom Corporation is considering the acquisition of Jerry Corporation. Jerry Corporation has free cash flows to debt and equity holders of $3,750,000. If Tom Corporations acquires Jerry Corporation, Jerry will reduce operating costs by $1,500,000. This will increase free cash flow to $4,900,000. Assume that cash flows occur at year-end and the weighted average cost of capital is 9%. a. What is the value of Jerry Corporation without a merger? o. What is the value of Jerry Corporation with the merger?
- Bentley Corporation and Rolls Manufacturing are considering a merger. The possible states of the economy and each company’s value in that state are shown here: State Probability Bentley Rolls Boom .70 $ 330,000 $ 300,000 Recession .30 130,000 100,000 Bentley currently has a bond issue outstanding with a face value of $145,000. Rolls is an all-equity company.I dont understand how did they calculate the discounted cash flow for each year, I was getting wrong answrers, please help by explaining each step and also the terminal valuePenn Corp. is analyzing the possible acquisition of Teller Company. Both believes the acquisition will increase its total aftertax annual cash flow by $1,121,625.19 indefinitely. The current market value of Teller is $24,273,531 and that of Penn is $66,093,202. The appropriate discount rate for the incremental cash flow is 11.69%. Penn is trying to decide whether it should offer 30% of its stock or $37,299,371 in cash to Teller's shareholders. What is the NPV of the cash offer? HINT: Subtract the cash offer from the value of the combined firm.