Question

Wolverine Corporation plans to pay $3 dividend per share on each of its 300,000 shares next year. Wolverine anticipates earnings of $6.25 per share over the years. If the company has a capital budgeting requiring an investment of 4 million over the year, and it desires to maintain its present debt to total assets (debt ratio) of 0.40, how much external equity must it raise? Assume that Wolverine’s capital structure includes only common equity and debt, and that debt and equity will be the only sources of funds to finance capital projects over the year.

Answer 1

Answer:

new equity  $  1,425,000

new debt     $    950,000

Explanation:

retained earnings

300,000 x (6.25 - 3) = 975.000

If debt is 0.4 of assets then by deifinition:

assets = liab+ equity

1 = 4 + equity

equity = 0.6 (60%)

Retained Earnings breakpoint

975,000 / 0.6 = 1,625,000‬

The company can riase capital expenditured for 1,625,000 and mantaining his capital structure.

As the company need 4,000,000 it will need to raise more capital as it surpass the retained earnings breakpoint.

4,000,000 - 1,625,000 = 2,375,000

2,375,000 x 0.6 = 1,425,000 new equity

2,375,000 x 0.4 =   950,000 new debt