Walker Machine Tools has 6.4 million shares of common stock outstanding. The current market price of Walker common stock is $70 per share rights-on. The companys net income this year is $22.00 million. A rights offering has been announced in which 640,000 new shares will be sold at $64.50 per share. The subscription price plus four rights is needed to buy one of the new shares.

a. What are the earnings per share and price-earnings ratio before the new shares are sold via the rights offering?

b. What would the earnings per share be immediately after the rights offering? What would the price-earnings ratio be immediately after the rights offering? (Assume there is no change in the market value of the stock, except for the change when the stock begins trading ex-rights.)