Melanee is a financial analyst in Bidget Corp. As part of her analysis of the annual distribution poicy and its impact on the firms value, she makes the following calculations and observations:

The company generated a free cash flow of $120 million in its most recent fiscal year.

The firms cost of capital is 12% The firm has been growing at 8% for the past six years but is expected to grow at a constant rate of 7% in the future.

The firm has 30.00 million shares outstanding

The company has $320 million in debt and $200 million in preferred stock

Along with the rest of the financial team, Melanee has been part of board meetings and knows that the company is planning to distribute $105 million, which is invested in short term investments, to its shareholders by buying back stock from its shareholders. Melanee also observed that at this point aport from the $105 million in short term investments, the firm has no other nonoperating assets. Solve for:

Value of the firms operations-

Intrinsic value of equity immediately-

Intrinsic stock price immediately prior to the stock repurchase-

Number of shares repurchased-

Intrinsic value of equity immediately after the stock repurchase-

Intrinsic value price immediately after the stock repurchase-

If a firm pays a dividend of $0.59 per share, the firms stock price will also fall by $0.59 per share. This statement is ___ (true or false) because if a firm pays a dividend of $0.59 per share, the prices per share of the firms stock will also fall by $0.59 to ____ (avoid or encourage) any arbitrage opportunities.