Round Hammer is comparing two different capital structures: An all-equity plan (Plan I) and a levered plan (Plan II). Under Plan I, the company would have 170,000 shares of stock outstanding. Under Plan II, there would be 120,000 shares of stock outstanding and $2.4 million in debt outstanding. The interest rate on the debt is 7 percent, and there are no taxes.    a. If EBIT is $450,000, what is the EPS for each plan? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. If EBIT is $700,000, what is the EPS for each plan? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) c. What is the break-even EBIT? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567.)

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Round Hammer is comparing two different capital structures: An all-equity plan (Plan I) and a levered plan (Plan II). Under Plan I, the company would have 170,000 shares of stock outstanding. Under Plan II, there would be 120,000 shares of stock outstanding and $2.4 million in debt outstanding. The interest rate on the debt is 7 percent, and there are no taxes.

  

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If EBIT is $450,000, what is the EPS for each plan? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

b. If EBIT is $700,000, what is the EPS for each plan? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
c. What is the break-even EBIT? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567.)

 

a. Plan I EPS  
  Plan II EPS  
b. Plan I EPS  
  Plan II EPS  
c. Break-even EBIT  
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