Chapter 20, Problem 6P

a.

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To Determine: The exercise value of Company PII’s warrants if the common stock sells at $18, $21, $25 and $70.

Introduction: A warrant is securities that give the bondholder the right, yet not the obligation, to purchase a specific number of securities at a specific cost before a specific time. Warrants are not the equivalent as the call options or purchase rights of the stock.

b.

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To Determine: The approximate price and the premium implied the warrants to sell under each condition from part (a) based on guess or reasonable assumption.

c.

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To Determine: The factors that affect the estimates of the warrants' prices and premium in part b when the (1) the life of warrant in lengthened, (2) the expected variability in stock's price decrease, (3) the growth rate in the stock's EPS increase and (4) when the company paid no dividends and will pay out all earnings as dividends.

d.

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To Determine: The annual coupon interest rate and annual dollar coupon on the bonds.