Hilltop Medical Goods is embarking on a massive expansion. Assume plans call for opening 20 new stores during the next two years. Each store is scheduled to be 30% larger than the company's existing locations, offering more items of inventory and with more elaborate displays. Management estimates that company operations will provide $1.0 million of the cash needed for expansion. Hilltop Medical must raise the remaining $6.5 million from outsiders. (Click the icon to view information on raising the additional funds.) Read the requirements. Requirement 1. Evaluate the effect the two financing alternatives will have on Hilltop's net income and earnings per share two years from now. Begin by selecting the labels needed to analyze the effect of the alternatives on net income and to show earnings per share after the expansion. Next, enter the amounts to show the effect of the borrowing alternative, then enter the amounts to show the effect of the shares of stock alternative. (For amounts with a $0 balance, make sure to enter "0" in the appropriate column. Round the EPS calculation to two decimal places. Enter amounts in dollars instead of millions.) |Less: Less: Alternative 1 Borrow $6.5 milllion at 12% Alternative 2 Issue 100,000 shares of stock