An all-equity business has 125 million shares outstanding selling for $20 a share. Management believes that interest rates are unreasonably low and decides to execute a leveraged recapitalization (a recap). It will raise $1 billion in debt and repurchase 50 million shares.

a. What is the market value of the firm prior to the recap? What is the market value of equity? (Enter your answers in billions rounded to 1 decimal place.)

b. Assuming the Irrelevance Proposition holds, what is the market value of the firm after the recap? What is the market value of equity? (Enter your answers in billions rounded to 1 decimal place.)

d. Assume now that the recap increases total firm cash flows, which adds $150 million to the value of the firm. Now what is the market value of the firm? What is the market value of equity? (Enter your answers in billions rounded to 2 decimal places.)

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