Exam 16: Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Policy

The June Bug has a $565,000 bond issue outstanding. These bonds have a coupon rate of 6.65 percent, pay interest semiannually, and sell at 98.7 percent of face value. The tax rate is 21 percent. What is the amount of the annual interest tax shield?

The Book Worm is an unlevered company with an aftertax net income of $118,406. The unlevered cost of capital is 13.8 percent and the tax rate is 21 percent. What is the value of this company?

The present value of the interest tax shield is expressed as:

M&M Proposition I with no tax supports the argument that:

Which one of the following is a marketed claim against the cash flows of a company?

The basic lesson of M&M theory is that the value of a company is dependent upon:

The proposition that a company borrows up to the point where the marginal benefit of the interest tax shield derived from increased debt is just equal to the marginal expense of the resulting increase in financial distress costs is called:

The interest tax shield is a key reason why:

Financial risk is:

New Schools is an all-equity company with an expected EBIT of $94,000 every year forever. The company can borrow at 7.4 percent while its cost of equity is 13.9 percent. What will be the value of the company if it converts to 50 percent debt given its total tax rate of 24 percent?

Ignoring taxes, Pewter & Glass has a weighted average cost of capital of 10.82 percent. The company can borrow at 7.4 percent. What is the cost of equity if the debt-equity ratio is .68?

The value of a firm is maximized when the:

Which one of the following makes the capital structure of a company irrelevant?

Theo currently owns 700 shares of JKL, which is an all-equity firm with 320,000 shares of stock outstanding at a market price of $25 a share. The company's earnings before interest and taxes are $160,000. JKL has decided to issue $500,000 of debt at 7.5 percent interest and use the proceeds to repurchase shares of stock. How many shares of JKL stock must Theo sell to unlever his position if he can loan out funds at 7.5 percent interest? (Assume partial shares can be sold.)

Winter's Toyland has a debt-equity ratio of .57. The pretax cost of debt is 8.2 percent and the required return on assets is 14.7 percent. What is the company's cost of equity if you ignore taxes?