4. Merger analysis Adjusted present value (APV) approach Wward Inc., which is considering the acquisition of Global Satellite Corp. (GSC), estimates that acquiring GSC will result in an incremental value for the firm. The analysts involved in the deal have collected the following information from the projected financial statements of the target company: Data Collected (in millions of dollars) Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 EBIT $14.0 $16.8 $21.0 Interest expense 3.0 133 3.6 5 Debt 33.0 39.0 42.0 Total net operating capital 1123 115.5 117.7 Global Satellite Corp. (GSC) is a publicly traded company, and its market-determined pre-merger beta is 1.00. You also have the following information about the company and the projected statements: GSC currently has a $26.00 million market value of equity and $16.20 millon in debt. The disk-free rate is 5%, there is a 7.10% market risk premium, and the Capital Asset Pricing Model produces a pre-merger required rate of return on equity of 12.10% GSC's cost of debt la 7.00% at a tax rate of 40%. The projections assume that the company will have a post-horizon growth rate of 6.00%, Current total net operating capital is $110.0, and the sum of existing debt and debt required to maintain a constant capital structure at the time of acquisition is $30 million. The firm does not have any nonoperating assets such as marketable secundles. Given this information, use the adjusted present value (APV) approach to calculate the following values involved in merger analysis. (Note: Only round Intermediate calculations when entering them as a final answer) Unlevered cost of equity Horizon value of unlevened cash flows Horizon value of tax shield Unlevered value of operations Value of tax shield Value of operations Thus, the total value of GSC's equity is Value Suppose Wizard Inc. plans to use more debt in the first few years of the acquisition of Global Satellite Corp. (GSC) Assuming that using more debt will not lead to an increase in bankruptcy costs for Wizard Inc., the interest tax shields and the value of the tax shield in the analysis, will leading to a value of operations of the acquired firm. The APV approach is considered useful for valuing acquisition targets, because the method involves finding the values of the unlevared firm and the interest tax shield separately and then summing those values. Why is it difficult to value certain types of acquisitions using the corporate valuation model? Because the acquisition is usually financed with new debt that will be repaid rapidly, the proportion of debt in the capital structure changes after the acquisition Because the acquisition is usually financed with equity and no new debt, the proportion of debt in the capital structure remains constant after the acquisition