Your company doesn\'t face any taxes and has $267 million in assets, currently f

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Your company doesn't face any taxes and has $267 million in assets, currently financed entirely with equity. Equity is worth $9.7 per share, and book value of equity is equal to market value of equity. Also, let's assume that the firm's expected values for EBIT depend upon which state of the economy occurs this year, with the possible values of EBIT and their associated probabilities as shown below:

The firm is considering switching to a 15-percent debt capital structure, and has determined that they would have to pay a 10 percent yield on perpetual debt in either event. What will be the level of expected EPS if they switch to the proposed capital structure? (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 2 decimal places except calculation of number of shares which should be rounded to nearest whole number.)

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State of Economy Pessimistic Optimistic Probability 0.2 0.8 Expected EBIT $   27,000,000 $   67,000,000 Interest = 40050000*10% = $      4,005,000 $     4,005,000 Net income after restructure $   22,995,000 $   62,995,000 Expected NI = 22995000*0.2+62995000*0.8 = $   54,995,000 Numbrer of shares 23396907 Expected EPS, after restructure $2.35    WORKINGS: Total assets $ 267,000,000 Equity before restructure $ 267,000,000 Debt after restructure = 15% = $   40,050,000 Equity after restructure = 85% = $ 226,950,000 Number of equity shares after restructure = (226950000/9.7) 23396907

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