Question

Suppose that your firm's current unlevered value, V*, is $800,000, and its marginal corporate tax rate is 35 percent. Also, you model the firm's PV of financial distress as a function of its debt level according to the relation: PV of financial distress = 800,000 × ((D/V*)^2). What is the firm's levered value if it issues $200,000 of perpetual debt to buy back stock?

Answer 1

Answer:

$820,000

Explanation:

The computation of the firm's levered value is shown below:

Value of levered firm = Value of unlevered firm + Debt × tax -PV (financial distress)

Value of levered firm = $800,000 + $200000 × 35% - $800,0000 × (25%)^2

= $820,000

The 25% is come from

= $200,000 ÷ $800,000

= 25%

We simply applied the above formula to determine the levered value