Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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ISBN: 9780134083278
Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 14, Problem 6P
Suppose Alpha Industries and Omega Technology have identical assets that generate identical cash flows. Alpha Industries is an all-equity firm, with 10 million shares outstanding that trade for a price of $22 per share. Omega Technology has 20 million shares outstanding as well as debt of $60 million.
- a. According to MM Proposition I, what is the stock price for Omega Technology?
- b. Suppose Omega Technology stock currently trades for $11 per share. What arbitrage opportunity is available? What assumptions are necessary to exploit this opportunity?
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Chapter 14 Solutions
Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
Ch. 14.1 - How does the risk and cost of capital of levered...Ch. 14.2 - Why are investors indifferent to the firms capital...Ch. 14.2 - What is a market value balance sheet?Ch. 14.2 - In a perfect capital market, how will a firms...Ch. 14.3 - How do we compute the weighted average cost of...Ch. 14.3 - With perfect capital markets, as a firm increases...Ch. 14.4 - If a change in leverage raises a firm's earnings...Ch. 14.4 - True or False: When a firm issues equity, it...Ch. 14.5 - Consider the questions facing Dan Harris, CFO of...Ch. 14.5 - Prob. 2CC
Ch. 14 - Consider a project with free cash flows in one...Ch. 14 - You are an entrepreneur starting a biotechnology...Ch. 14 - Acort Industries owns assets that will have an 80%...Ch. 14 - Wolfrum Technology (WT) has no debt. Its assets...Ch. 14 - Suppose there are no taxes. Firm ABC has no debt,...Ch. 14 - Suppose Alpha Industries and Omega Technology have...Ch. 14 - Prob. 7PCh. 14 - Prob. 8PCh. 14 - Zetatron is an all-equity firm with 100 million...Ch. 14 - Explain what is wrong with the following argument:...Ch. 14 - Consider the entrepreneur described in Section...Ch. 14 - Hardmon Enterprises is currently an all-equity...Ch. 14 - Suppose Visa Inc. (V) has no debt and an equity...Ch. 14 - Prob. 14PCh. 14 - Prob. 15PCh. 14 - Hartford Mining has 50 million shares that are...Ch. 14 - Mercer Corp. has 10 million shares outstanding and...Ch. 14 - In mid-2015 Qualcomm Inc. had 11 billion in debt,...Ch. 14 - Prob. 19PCh. 14 - Prob. 20PCh. 14 - Yerba Industries is an all-equity firm whose stock...Ch. 14 - Prob. 22PCh. 14 - Prob. 23PCh. 14 - Prob. 24P
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