Please see the attached Data Case on The Home Depot. I need to get it answered by 10pm.

Data Case You work in the corporate finance division of The Home Depot and your boss has asked you to review the firm's capital structure. Specifically, your boss is considering changing the firm's debt level. Your boss remembers something from his MBA program about capital structure being irrelevant, but isn't quite sure what that means. You know that capital structure is irrelevant under the conditions of perfect markets and will demonstrate this point for your boss by showing that the weighted average cost of capital remains constant under various levels of debt. So, for now, suppose that capital markets are perfect as you prepare responses for your boss, You would like to analyze relatively modest changes to Home Depot's capital structure. You would like to consider two scenarios: the firm issues $1 billion in new debt to repurchase stock, and the firm issues $1 billion in new stock to repurchase debt. Use Excel to answer the following questions using Eq 14.5 and Eq 14.6, and assuming a cost of unlevered equity (rU) of 12 percent. 1. Obtain the financial info you need for Home Depot A. go to www.nasdaq.com click \"summary quotes\" on the left-hand side and enter Home Depot's stock symbol (HD). Click \"go\" from the summary quotes page, get the current stock price and number of shares outstanding B. click \"company financials\" and the annual income state should appear. Put the cursor in the middle of the statement, right-click your mouse, and select \"export to Microsoft excel\". Go back to the nasdaq web page and select the balance sheet. Export that to excel as well and then cut and paste the balance sheet to the same worksheet as the income statement. C. To get the cost of debt for the Home Depot, go to NASD Bond info. http://cxa.marketwatch.com/finra/bondcenter/default.aspx select the corporate toggle, search by symbol and enter Home Depot's symbol. The next page will contain information for all of Home Depot's outstanding and recently matured bonds. Select the latest yield on an outstanding bond with the shortest remaining maturity (the maturity date is on the line describing each issue; sometimes the list also contains recently retired bonds, so make sure not to use one of those). For simplicity, since you are just trying to illustrate the main concepts for your boss, you may use the existing yield on the outstanding bond as Rd. 2. Compute the market D/E ratio for Home Depot. Approximate the market value of debt to the book value of net debt; include both Long-Term debt and short-term debt/ current portion of long-term debt form the balance sheet and subtract any cash holdings. Use the stock price and number of shares outstanding to calculate the market value of equity 3. Compute the cost of levered equity (Re) for Home Depot using their current market debt-to- equity ratio 4. Compute the current weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for Home Depot given their current debt-to-equity ratios 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for the two scenarios you would like to analyze, issuing $1 billion in debt to repurchase stock, and issuing $1 billion in stock to repurchase debt. What is the market D/E ratio in each of these cases? 6 prepare a written explanation for your boss explaining the relationship between capital structure and the cost of capital in this exercise