You work for a levered buyout firm and are evaluating a potential buyout of TTUN Inc. TTUN’s stock price is $20, and it has 4 million shares outstanding. You believe that if you buy the company and replace its dismal management team, its value will increase by 80%. You are planning on doing a levered buyout of TTUN and will offer $23 per share for control of the company. Will shareholders sell their shares and how much equity will you own if improvements are made?

A firm has a total market value of assets of $300 million that includes $60 million of cash and 8 million shares outstanding. If the firm uses $30 million of its cash to repurchase shares, what is the new price per share? (Assume perfect capital markets.) 

Brutus Buckeye Exploration has a current stock price of $3.00 and is expected to pays its expected annual dividend of $0.28 next year. Which of the following is closest to the company’s equity cost of capital if long term growth is expected to be 2%?

Use the table for the question(s) below. Name Market Capitalization ($ million) Enterprise Value       ($ million) P/E Price/ Book Enterprise Value/ Sales Enterprise Value/ EBITDA Gannet 6350 10,163   7.36 0.73 1.4 5.04 New York Times 2423   3472 18.09 2.64 1.10 7.21 McClatchy   675   3061    9.76 1.68 1.40 5.64 Media General   326   1192 14.89 0.39 1.31 7.65 Lee Enterprises   267   1724    6.55 0.82 1.57 6.65 Average     11.33 1.25 1.35 6.84 Maximum     +60% 112% +16% +22% Minimum     -40% -69% -18% -19% The table above shows the stock prices and multiples for a number of firms in the newspaper publishing industry. Another newspaper publishing firm (not shown) had sales of $600 million, EPS of $0.50, excess cash of $68 million, $18 million of debt, and 120 million shares outstanding. If the average PE ratio is used for comparable businesses is used, which of the following is the best estimate of the firm’s share price?

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Which of the following is a disadvantage of the Net Present Value rule?

Given the following information: Risk-free rate = 3% Expected market return = 8% Beta of the stock = 1.2   Calculate the expected return of the stock.

 Investment A: Year:                    0                  1                2                3                4            5 Cash flow:          -$14,000     $7000        $8000        $6000        $6000    $6000   Investment B: Year:                    0                  1                2                3                4            5 Cash flow:          -$15,000     $7000        $7000        $7000        $7000    $7000   Investment C: Year:                    0                  1                2                3                4            5 Cash flow:          -$18,000     $12,000     $2000        $2000        $2000    $2000   The cash flows for three projects are shown above. The cost of capital is 9.5%. Even though we know the payback period is an unreliable investment decision rule, suppose an investor decides to take projects with a payback period two years or less. Which of these projects would he take? 

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Which of the following features does not support the inclusion of Charophytes in the Plantae kingdom?