Northwestern Lumber Products currently has 16,500 shares of stock outstanding. Patricia, the financial manager, is considering issuing $129,000 of debt at an interest rate of 6.4 percent. Given this, how many shares of stock will be outstanding once the debt is issued if the break-even level of EBIT between these two capital structure options is $63,000? Ignore taxes. 14,337.71 shares 15,532.52 shares 12,289.47 shares. 13,381.87 shares 13,620.83 shares

Northwestern Lumber Products currently has 16,500 shares of stock outstanding. Patricia, the financial manager, is considering issuing $129,000 of debt at an interest rate of 6.4 percent. Given this, how many shares of stock will be outstanding once the debt is issued if the break-even level of EBIT between these two capital structure options is $63,000? Ignore taxes. 14,337.71 shares 15,532.52 shares 12,289.47 shares. 13,381.87 shares 13,620.83 shares

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