Walton and Company is the managing investment banker for a major new underwriting. The price of the stock to the investment banker is
a. If Walton and Company sells its shares to the dealer group, what will the percentage return be?
b. If Walton and Company performs the dealer’s function also and sells to brokers, what will the percentage return be?
c. If Walton and Company fully integrates its operation and sells directly to the public, what will its percentage return be?
Want to see the full answer?
Check out a sample textbook solutionChapter 15 Solutions
Foundations of Financial Management
- You would like to sell 200 shares of Xenith Bankshares, Inc. (XBKS). The current ask and bid quotes are $4.66 and $4.62, respectively. You place a limit sell order at $4.65.If the trade executes, how much money do you receive from the buyer?arrow_forwardRST Inc. wants to raise $30M in an IPO and chose Soldman Gachs to underwrite the offering. The two sides agreed that Soldman Gachs would sell 5M shares to the public and provide $30M in net proceeds to RST. The out of pocket expenses incurred by Soldman Gachs were $500,000. What profit or loss did Security Brokers incur if the issue were sold to the public at $8 / share? What about at $5.50 / share?arrow_forwardAstro Investment Bank offers Lunar Vacations the following options on its initial public sale of equity: (a) a best efforts arrangement whereby Astro will keep 2.4% of the retail sales or (b) a firm commitment arrangement of $10,100,000. Lunar plans on offering 1,000,000 shares at $11.36 per share to the public. If it sells 100% of the shares, which is the better choice for Lunar Vacations? Which is the better choice for Astro InvestmentBank?arrow_forward
- Amherst Corporation, an investment banking company, often has extra cash to invest. Suppose Amherst buys900 shares of Hurricane Corporation stock at $57 per share, representing less than 5% ofHurricane’s outstanding stock. Amherst expects to hold the Hurricane stock for one month andthen sell it. The purchase occurs on December 15, 2018. On December 31, the market price of ashare of Hurricane stock is $58 per share.Requirements1. What type of investment is this for Amherst? Give the reason for your answer.2. Record Amherst’s purchase of the Hurricane stock on December 15 and the adjustment tomarket value on December 31.3. Show how Amherst would report this investment on its balance sheet at December 31 andany gain or loss on its income statement for the year ended December 31, 2018.arrow_forwardIn the Republic of Atlantis the regulators decide to allow private placement of equity (see problem set 2 extra questions). A firm called Fish Inc. currently trades in their stock market at a price of $3 (Atlantic dollars) with 100 million shares outstanding. The manager currently needs to raise extra $300m. They decide to do that in a private placement and sell the shares to an individual investor at a discount of 20% of current share price. Which of the following statements is (are) true: (i) Private placements are fair. (ii) The company will issue 125m extra shares. (iii) Pre-existing investors will lose $34p per share.Required to answer. Single choice.arrow_forwardIf an investor buys shares in a closed-end investment company for $46 and the net asset value is $53, what is the discount? If the company distributes $1, the net asset value rises to $58, and the investor sells the shares for a premium of 5 percent over the net asset value, what is the percentage earned on the investment?arrow_forward
- ABC would like to repurchase 50,000 of its ordinary shares. Investor X offered to sell his 20,000 shares at P20 per share. Investor Y offered to sell his 30,000 shares at P21 per share. Lastly, Investor Z offered to sell his 50,000 shares at P22 per share. ABC eventually paid Investors X and Y P21 per share to complete the repurchase. This is a/an *A. Fixed price tender offerB. Dutch auction self-tender repurchaseC. Open market operationD. Selective buy-backarrow_forwardConsider the following premerger information about a bidding firm (Firm B) and a target firm (Firm T). Assume that both firms have no debt outstanding. Firm B Firm T Shares outstanding 6,400 1,600 Price per share $ 48 $ 19 Firm B has estimated that the value of the synergistic benefits from acquiring Firm T is $8,900. a. If Firm T is willing to be acquired for $21 per share in cash, what is the NPV of the merger? b. What will the price per share of the merged firm be assuming the conditions in (a)? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) c. If Firm T is willing to be acquired for $21 per share in cash, what is the merger premium? d. Suppose Firm T is agreeable to a merger by an exchange of stock. If B offers one of its shares for every two of T's shares, what will the price per share of the merged firm be? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2…arrow_forwardAt what amount should the investment be recorded initially? 2. On April 15, 2021, Pepper purchased 15,000 shares of Atty Group for P150,000. The commission paid to the broker amounted to P8,500. Management made an irrevocable choice to subsequently measure the shares at FVOCI. At what amount should the investment be recorded initially?arrow_forward
- Consider the following premerger information about a bidding firm (Firm B) and a target firm (Firm T). Assume that both firms have no debt outstanding. Firm B Firm T Shares outstanding 4,600 1,000 Price per share $ 40 $ 14 Firm B has estimated that the value of the synergistic benefits from acquiring Firm T is $8,800. If Firm T is willing to be acquired for $16 per share in cash, what is the NPV of the a. merger? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.) What will the price per share of the merged firm be assuming the conditions in b. (a)? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) If Firm T is willing to be acquired for $16 per share in cash, what is the merger c. premium? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.) d. Suppose Firm T is agreeable to a merger by an exchange of stock. If B offers one of its shares for…arrow_forwardWuttke Corp. wants to raise $4.5 million via a rights offering. The company currently has 550,000 shares of common stock outstanding that sell for $80 per share. Its underwriter has set a subscription price of $40 per share and will charge the company a spread of 4 percent. If you currently own 2,500 shares of stock in the company and decide not to participate in the rights offering, how much money can you get by selling your rights? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Sale proceedsarrow_forwardWhich of the following is a primary market transaction? You sell 200 shares of Johnson & Johnson stock on the NYSE through your broker. Johnson & Johnson issues 2,000,000 shares of new stock and sells them to the public through an investment banker. You buy 200 shares of Johnson & Johnson stock from your younger brother. You just give him cash and he gives you the stock¾the trade is not made through a broker. One financial institution buys 200,000 shares of Johnson & Johnson stock from another institution. An investment banker arranges the transaction. You invest $10,000 in a mutual fund, which then uses the money to buy $10,000 of Johnson & Johnson shares on the NYSE.arrow_forward
- Essentials Of InvestmentsFinanceISBN:9781260013924Author:Bodie, Zvi, Kane, Alex, MARCUS, Alan J.Publisher:Mcgraw-hill Education,
- Foundations Of FinanceFinanceISBN:9780134897264Author:KEOWN, Arthur J., Martin, John D., PETTY, J. WilliamPublisher:Pearson,Fundamentals of Financial Management (MindTap Cou...FinanceISBN:9781337395250Author:Eugene F. Brigham, Joel F. HoustonPublisher:Cengage LearningCorporate Finance (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series i...FinanceISBN:9780077861759Author:Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford D Jordan ProfessorPublisher:McGraw-Hill Education