Stephenson Real Estate Company was founded 25 years ago by the current CEO, Robert Stephenson. The company purchases real estate, including land and buildings, and rents the properties to tenants. The company has shown a profit every year for the past 18 years, and the shareholders are satisfied with the companys management. Prior to founding Stephenson Real Estate, Robert was the founder and CEO of a failed alpaca farming operation. The resulting bankruptcy made him extremely averse to debt financing. As a result, the company is entirely equity financed, with 9 million shares of common stock outstanding. The stock currently trades at $37.80 per share. Stephenson is evaluating a plan to purchase a huge tract of land in the southeastern United States for $95 million. The land will subsequently be leased to tenant farmers. This purchase is expected to increase Stephensons annual pre-tax earnings (EBIT) by $18.75 million in perpetuity. Jennifer Weyand, the companys new CFO, has been put in charge of the project. Jennifer has determined that the companys current cost of capital is 10.20%. She feels that the company would be more valuable if it included debt in its capital structure, so she is evaluating whether the company should issue debt to entirely finance the project. Based on some conversations with investment banks, she thinks that the company can issue bonds at par (face value) with a 6 percent coupon rate. From her analysis, she also believes that a capital structure in the range of 70 percent equity/30 percent debt would be optimal. If the company goes beyond 30 percent debt, its bonds would carry a lower rating and a much higher coupon because of the possibility of financial distress and the associated costs would rise sharply. Stephenson has a 40 percent corporate tax rate.

4) Suppose Stephenson decides to issue debt to finance the purchase. a) What will be the market value of the Stephenson company be if the purchase is financed with debt? b) Construct Stephensons market value balance sheet after both the debt issue and the land purchase. What is the price per share of the firms stock? Market Value Balance Sheet

Value Unlevered	Debt
Tax shield	Equity
Total Assets	Total Equity+ Debt

c) What is Stephensons cost of equity if it goes forward with the debt issue? (Do not round your answer.) d) What is Stephensons weighted average cost of capital if it goes forward with the debt issue? (Do not round your answer.)

e) What total after-tax cash flow is being generated by Stephenson after the acquisition? f) What is the present value of this after-tax cash flow? What is the market value of equity? What is the stock price? Does this agree with your work from parts (a) and (b)?