Hors d'Age Cheeseworks has been paying a regular cash dividend of $4 per share each year for over a decade. The company is paying out all its earnings as dividends and is not expected to grow. There are 100,000 shares outstanding selling for $80 per share. The company has sufficient cash on hand to pay the next annual dividend at t = 1 Suppose that, starting in year 1, Hors d'Age decides to cut its cash dividend to zero and announces that it will repurchase shares instead. (Round all repurchase amounts to the nearest whole share.) a. What is the immediate stock price reaction? Ignore taxes, and assume that the repurchase program conveys no information about operating profitability or business risk. Increase Decrease Remain the same b. How many shares will Hors d'Age purchase? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) Number of shares repurchased c. Project and compare future stock prices for the old and new policies. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your old policy answers to the nearest whole number and your new policy answers to 2 decimal places.) Share Price Year Old Policy New Policy 1S 80.00 2 80.00 3 80.00