Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780077861704
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Bradford D Jordan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 15, Problem 15QP
Summary Introduction
To find: The rights and the stock are priced properly on the ex-rights day. The transactions in which Person X can use these prices to make an immediate gain.
Introduction:
The public issue of securities in which the securities are generally at an initial stage offered to the owners or the existing shareholders of the company is a right offer.
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Knight Inventory Systems, Incorporated, has announced a rights offer. The company has announced that it will take three rights to buy a new share in the offering at a subscription price of $45. At the close of business the day before the ex-rights day, the company’s stock sells for $80 per share. The next morning, you notice that the stock sells for $60 per share and the rights sell for $2 each.
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Chapter 15 Solutions
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
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