Cruz Corporation has $150 billion of debt outstanding. An otherwise identical firm has no debt and has a market value of $550 billion. Under the Miller model, what is Cruz’s value if the federal-plus-state corporate tax rate is 28%, the effective personal tax rate on stock is 17%, and the personal tax rate on debt is 29%? Enter your answer in billions.

1. Cruz Corporation has $150 billion of debt outstanding. An otherwise identical firm has no debt and has a market value of $550 billion. Under the Miller model, what is Cruz’s value if the federal-plus-state corporate tax rate is 28%, the effective personal tax rate on stock is 17%, and the personal tax rate on debt is 29%? Enter your answer in billions. For example, an answer of $1.23 billion should be entered as 1.23, not 1,230,000,000. Round your answer to two decimal places.

2. Lee Manufacturing’s value of operations is equal to $900 million after a recapitalization. (The firm had no debt before the recap.) Lee raised $300 million in new debt and used this to buy back stock. Lee had no short-term investments before or after the recap. After the recap, wd = 1/3. The firm had 20 million shares before the recap. What is P (the stock price after the recap)? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest cent.

3. MM with Corporate Taxes

Companies U and L are identical in every respect except that U is unlevered while L has $16 million of 8% bonds outstanding. Assume: (1) All of the MM assumptions are met. (2) Both firms are subject to a 25% federal-plus-state corporate tax rate. (3) EBIT is $2 million. (4) The unlevered cost of equity is 12%.

a. What value would MM now estimate for each firm? (Hint: Use Proposition I.) Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55. Round your answers to two decimal places.

b. What is rs for Firm L? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to one decimal place.

c. Find SL, and then show that SL + D = VL results in the same value as obtained in Part a. Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.

d. What is the WACC for Firm L? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

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