Ch 26: Assignment - Mergers and Corporate Control Washington Company is considering an acquisition of Rapid Routes Logistics, Washington Company estimates that acquiring Rapid Routes will result in 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 (Millions of dollars) Year 1 BO EBIT (Millions of dollars) (Millions of dollars) Year 2 Year 3 12.0 4.4 4.8 39.0 42.0 Interest expense 4.0 Debt 33.0 Total net operating capital 1071 1092 111.3 Rapid Routes is a publicly traded company, and its market determined pre-merger beta 1.00You also have the following information about the company and the projected statements Rapid Houtes currently has a $24.00 million market value of equity and $15.00 million in de The risk-free rate is 5% with a 7-10% market risk premium, and the Capital Acont Pricing Model produces a pre-merger required rate of return on equity of 12.109 Rapid Houtes's cost of abt is 7.00% ata tax rate of 10% The projection assume that the company will have a post-horteon growth rate of 5.00% Current total net operating capital is $104 milion and the sum of existinu debt and debt required to maintain a constant capital structure at the time of acquisition is $30 million The firm has nenoncerating sets, such as marketable securities with the given information, use the free cash flow to equity (FCFE) approach to calculate the following values involved in the merger analysis. (Note: Round your answer to two decimal places, but do not round Intermediate calculations.) Value FCFE horizon value Value of FCHE The estimated value of Rapid Router's operations after the merger than the market value of Rapid Routes equity. This means that the wealth of Rapid Routes's shareholders will if it merges with Washington rather than remaining as a stand-alone corporation True or False: The horizon value in the FCFE approach is different from the horizon value in the adjusted present value (APV) approach. The hero value in the FCFE approach is only for equity, whereas the horizon value in the APV approach is for the total value of operation. False True