What is the price of consolidated stock and what is the

Question

Consolidated Pasta is currently expected to pay annual dividends of $10 a share in perpetuity on the 1.5 million shares that are outstanding. Shareholders require a 10% rate of return from Consolidated stock.

a. What is the price of Consolidated stock?

b. What is the total market value of its equity? (Enter your answer in millions.)

Consolidated now decides to increase next year's dividend to $20 a share, without changing its investment or borrowing plans. Thereafter the company will revert to its policy of distributing $10 million a year.

c. How much new equity capital will the company need to raise to finance the extra dividend payment?(Enter your answer in millions.)

d. What will be the total present value of dividends paid each year on the new shares that the company will need to issue? (Enter your answer in millions.)

e. What will be the transfer of value from the old shareholders to the new shareholders? (Enter your answer in millions.)

f. Is this figure more than, less than, or the same as the extra dividend that the old shareholders will receive?

More than
Less than
The same

Answer 1

Read the case study or case statement illustrated below and on that basis respond it properly. Case: Consolidated Pasta is presently expected to pay yearly dividends of $10 a share in perpetuity on the 1.5 million shares which are outstanding. Shareholders need a 10% rate of return from consolidated stock. a) Determine the price of consolidated stock? b) Determine the net market value of its equity? c) Explain how much new equity capital; the company requires increasing to finance the extra dividend payment? d) What will be the net present value of dividends paid each year on the new shares which the company will require to issue? e) Illustrate what will be the transfer of value from the old shareholders to the latest shareholders?