Newkirk, Inc., is an unlevered firm with expected annual earnings before taxes of $22.3 million in perpetuity. The current required return on the firms equity is 20 percent, and the firm distributes all of its earnings as dividends at the end of each year. The company has 1.43 million shares of common stock outstanding and is subject to a corporate tax rate of 34 percent. The firm is planning a recapitalization under which it will issue $31.3 million of perpetual 10.3 percent debt and use the proceeds to buy back shares.

a. Use the flow to equity method to calculate the value of the companys equity after the recapitalization. (Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.)

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