Exam 18: Issuing Capital and the Investment Banking Process

Shocks and Struts, Inc., needs to raise $40 million to finance its plan for nationwide expansion. In discussions with its investment bank, they learn that the bankers recommend an offer price (or gross price) of $125 per share and they will charge an underwriter's spread of $12.50 per share. Calculate the net proceeds to Shocks and Struts from the sale of stock. How many shares of stock will Shocks and Struts need to sell in order to receive the $40 million they need?

Soccer Games, Inc., with the help of its investment bank recently issued $10 million of new debt. The offer price (and face value) on the debt was $1,000 per bond and the underwriter's spread was 5 percent of the gross proceeds. What is the amount of capital funding Soccer Games raised through this debt offering?

Calculate the total fees a firm would have to pay when its bank offers the firm the following loan commitment: A loan commitment of $5,000,000 with an up-front fee of 50 basis points and a back-end fee of 20 basis points. The take-down on the loan is 80 percent.

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

Which of these is the type of loan where the firm borrows against pre-negotiated lines of credit or loan commitments?

TV Technology Corp. recently went public with an initial public offering of 1.5 million shares of stock. The underwriter used a firm commitment offering in which the net proceeds was $24.50 per share and the underwriter's spread was 5 percent of the gross proceeds. TV Technology also paid legal and other administrative costs of $300,000 for the IPO. Calculate the gross proceeds per share received by TV Technology from the sale of the 1.5 million shares of stock.

Hughes Technology Corp. recently went public with an initial public offering in which they received a total of $9 million in new capital funding. The underwriter used a firm commitment offering in which the offer price was $102 and the underwriter's spread was $1.35. Hughes Technology also paid legal and other administrative costs of $400,000 for the IPO. Calculate the number of shares issued through this IPO.

Your company needs to raise $4 million to finance plant expansion. In discussions with its investment bank, you learn that the bankers recommend a gross price of $50 per share and that 90,000 shares of stock be sold. If the net proceeds on the stock sale leaves your company with $4 million, what is the underwriter's spread per share on the stock issue?

Saddles and Bridles, Inc., with the help of its investment bank recently issued 3 million shares of new stock. The offer price on the stock was $23.50 per share and Saddles and Bridles received a total of $68.385 million from the stock offering. Calculate the net proceeds and the underwriter's spread charged by the underwriter to Saddles and Bridles. What percentage of the gross proceeds is the investment bank charging Saddles and Bridles for underwriting the stock issue?

TV Technology Corp. recently went public with an initial public offering of 2 million shares of stock. The underwriter used a firm commitment offering in which the net proceeds was $50.75 per share and the underwriter's spread was 6 percent of the gross proceeds. TV Technology also paid legal and other administrative costs of $400,000 for the IPO. Calculate the gross proceeds per share received by TV Technology from the sale of the 2 million shares of stock.

Which of these is defined as a professionally managed pool of money used to finance new and often high-risk firms?

A market in which corporations raise funds through new issues of securities is referred to as a:

Which of the following is a security issue in which the investment bank guarantees the issuer a price for newly issued securities by buying the whole issue at a fixed price from the security issuer, and where the investment bank then seeks to resell the securities to investors at a higher price?

Which of the following describes the type of venture capital firms whose sole purpose is to find and fund the most promising new firms?

Paige's Purses, Inc., needs to raise $25 million to finance plant expansion. In discussions with its investment bank, Paige's Purses learns that the bankers recommend an offer price (or gross proceeds) of $50 per share and Paige's Purses will receive $45 per share. What is the underwriter's spread on the issue?

A ________ is a contractual commitment by a bank to loan a firm up to a certain maximum amount at given interest rate for a stated length of time over which the firm has the option to take down this loan.

A commitment fee is:

During the last year you have had a loan commitment from your bank to fund working capital for your business. The total line available was $25,000,000, of which you took down $20,000,000. It is now the end of the loan commitment period and your bank is asking you to pay the back-end fees. You have misplaced the paperwork that listed the terms of the commitment, but you know you paid total fees (this does not include any interest paid to borrow the $20,000,000) of $110,000 on this loan commitment. You remember that the back-end fee was 60 basis points. Calculate the front-end fee on this loan commitment.

Tennis Games, Inc., with the help of its investment bank recently issued $25 million of new debt. The offer price (and face value) on the debt was $1,000 per bond and the underwriter's spread was 8 percent of the gross proceeds. What is the amount of capital funding Tennis Games raised through this debt offering?

Bailey's Dog Pens, Inc., with the help of its investment bank recently issued $165,500,000 of new debt. The offer price on the debt was $1,000 per bond and the underwriter's spread was 7 percent of the gross proceeds. Calculate the amount of capital funding Bailey's Dog Pens raised through this bond issue.