Question

After successfully completing your corporate finance class, you feel the next challenge ahead is to serve on the board of directors of schenkel enterprises. unfortunately, you will be the only individual voting for you. if the company has 410,000 shares outstanding and the stock currently sells for $47, how much will it cost you to buy a seat if the company uses straight voting? (do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to the nearest whole number,
e.g., 32.) total cost $ 9635047 assume that the company uses cumulative voting and there are three seats in the current election; how much will it cost you to buy a seat now?

Answer 1

Number of shares: 410,000

Share price: $47

IF THE COMPANY USES STRAIGHT VOTING:

STEP 1: If the company uses straight voting, then the number of shares it should own would be half of the shares plus one share, in order to guarantee that the enough votes are received to win the election.

Number of shares needed = (Number of shares available for voting ÷ 2) + 1

Number of shares needed = (410,000 ÷ 2) + 1

Number of shares needed = 205,001

STEP 2: Total cost will be the product of share price and number of shares needed.

Total Cost = Share Price × Number of shares needed

Total Cost = $ 47 × 205,001

Total Cost = $ 9,635,047

It will cost $9,635,047 if the company uses straight voting.

IF THE COMPANY USES CUMULATIVE VOTING :

STEP 1: If the company uses cumulative voting, you need 1/(N+1) percent of stock plus one share to get maximum number of votes to win the election.

Percent of stock needed = [1 ÷ (N + 1)] * 100

Percent of stock needed = [1 ÷ (3 + 1)]* 100

Percent of stock needed = (1 ÷ 4) * 100

Percent of stock needed = 25%

So the number of shares purchased = (410,000 × 25%)

Number of shares purchased = 102,500

Total Cost = Number of shares purchased × Share Price

Total Cost = 102,500 × $47

Total Cost = $4,817,500

It will cost $4,817,500 if the company uses cumulative voting.