Business Administration - Accounting & Financial Planning FIN401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Historical Cost, Suncor Energy, Integrated Operations

Problem 14-21

Yerba Industries is an all-equity firm whose stock has a beta of 1.2 and an expected return of 12.5%. Suppose it issues new risk-free debt with a 5% yield and repurchases 40% of its stock. Assume perfect capital markets.
a. What is the beta of Yerba stock after this transaction?
b. What is the expected return of Yerba stock after this transaction?
Suppose that prior to this transaction, Yerba expected earnings per share this coming year of $1.50, with a forward P/E ratio (that is, the share price divided by the expected earnings for the coming year) of 14.
c. What is Yerba’s expected earnings per share after this transaction? Does this change benefit shareholders? Explain.
d. What is Yerba’s forward P/E ratio after this transaction? Does the P/E ratio go up or down?

Unlevered beta 1.20
Expected return 12.50%
Risk-free rate 5.00%
New debt level 40.00%

New Debt/Equity:
Market risk premium:

a. What is the beta of Yerba stock after this transaction?

New beta:

b. What is the expected return of Yerba stock after this transaction?

New expected return on equity:

Suppose that prior to this transaction, Yerba expected earnings per share this coming year of $1.50, with a forward P/E ratio (that is, the share price divided by the expected earnings for the coming year) of 14.
c. What is Yerba’s expected earnings per share after this transaction? Does this change benefit shareholders? Explain.

Old EPS $1.50
Forward P/E 14
Assumed shares 100

Price per share:
Old equity:
New debt:
New earnings:
New equity:
New shares:
New EPS:

d. What is Yerba’s forward P/E ratio after this transaction? Does the P/E ratio go up or down?

New P/E:
Price/Earnings ratio:

retained earnings = $640,000; paid cast dividends = $55,000; ending total equity $7,350,000; 720 shares of common stock outstanding what is the earnings per share? dividends per share? book value per share? also, if the stock currently sells for $30.50 per share, what is the market-to-book ratio and the price-earnings ratio? and, if total sales were $10.65 million, what is the price-sales ratio?

Market Value Ratios You are considering an investment in Rivers Ringtone Corp. During the last year the firm's income statement listed addition to retained earnings = $2.5 million and common stock dividends = $1.2 million. Rivers year-end balance sheet shows common stockholders' equity = $10 million with 2 million shares of common stock outstanding. The common stock's market price per share = $45.00. What is Rivers Ringtone Corp' book value per share and earnings per share? Calculate the market-to-book ratio and PE ratio. Show all calculations for the questions and requests above.