Digital Fruit is financed solely by common stock and has outstanding 37 million shares with a market price of $10 a share. It now announces that it intends to issue $280 million of debt and to use the proceeds to buy back common stock. There are no taxes. a. What is the expected market price of the common stock after the announcement

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Answer:

Market price is unaffected by announcement

Explanation:

This question says that the company has announced intentions to issue $289 million of debt with intentions of buying common stock with proceeds

Price per share has been given as $10. The market price of the stock would not get affected by this announcement.

I have gone ahead to help you calculate the buyback, market value and debt ratio.

Buyback= $280/10 = 28 million shares

Market value = (37-28)*10 + 280 = 370 million

Debt ratio = 280/370 = 76%