It is December $31.$ Last year, Galaxy Corporation had sales of $$160,000,000,$ and it forecasts that next year$$s sales will be $$166,400,000.$ Its fixed costs have been$$and are expected to continue to be$$$$88,000,000,$ and its variable cost ratio is $15\mathrm{.}00\%.$ Galaxy$$s capital structure consists of a $$15$ million bank loan, on which it pays an interest rate of $12\%,$ and $5,000,000$ shares of outstanding common equity. The company$$s profits are taxed at a marginal rate of $35\%.$ Given this data, compute the following:

Note: Round intermediate calculations to two decimal places.

$$ The company$$s percentage change in EBIT is $.$

$$ The percentage change in Galaxy$$s earnings per share $($EPS$)$ is $.$

$$ The degree of financial leverage $($DFL$)$ at $$160,000,000$ is $.$

The following are the two principal equations that can be used to calculate a firm$$s DFL value:

DFL $($at EBIT $=$ $X$)=$ Percentage Change in EPSPercentage Change in EBIT

DFL $($at EBIT $=$ $X$)=$ EBIT$\{$EBIT $$ Interest $[$Preferred Dividends $/(1$ Tax Rate$)]\}$

Consider the following statement about DFL$,$ and indicate whether or not it is correct.

All other factors remaining constant, the larger the proportion of common equity used by the firm in its capital structure, the smaller the firm$$s DFL$.$

True

False