Given your answer to Problem 19, what effect would you expect an announcement of a share repurchase

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Given your answer to Problem 19, what effect would you expect an announcement of a share repurchase to have on the stock price? Why?

AMC Corporation currently has an enterprise value of $400 million and $100 million in excess cash. The firm has 10 million shares outstanding and no debt. Suppose AMC uses its excess cash to repurchase shares. After the share repurchase, news will come out that will change AMC’s enterprise value to either $600 million or $200 million.

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Corporate Finance

ISBN: 9780273792024

3rd Global Edition

Authors: Peter Demarzo, Jonathan Berk

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