The current stock price of Falcon airlines is $80. If Falcon issues equity, Falc
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The current stock price of Falcon airlines is $80. If Falcon issues equity, Falcon's management anticipates that the market will react negatively and that Falcon will only be able to sell the new shares for $70 per share. However, Falcon airlines management knows that if they do not issue equity their stock will soon go up to its fair fundamental value of $100 per share. Management knows this because they have inside information that future earnings will be higher than the market expects. Currently Falcon has 50,000 shares outstanding. Falcon is considering investing in a new airplane that will cost them $350,000. They anticipate that the present discounted value of increased earnings from purchasing the new plane is $450,000 (a) If Falcon had the cash available to purchase the new plane, should it make the purchase? (b) If Falcon needs to finance the purchase of the new plane with equity, will it make sense for them to purchase the plane? Assume managers act in the interest of long-run shareholders. [Hint: If they issue equity assume that the market will eventually correctly value the old assets of the firm - that is they will figure out the stock price of the firm without the airplane should have been $100. Use as your decision criterion the choice that maximizes the firm's stock price after the market values all assets at their fair fundamental value.]Explanation / Answer
Current stock price of Falcon is $80. Number of shares outstanding are 50,000. If Falcon issues new equity, the new shares will fetch $70 per share. If they don't issue new equity, price of share will shoot upto $100 per share. The new plane, falcon wants to finance will cost $350,000. Present value of increased earnings is $450,000. Therefore the plane will fetch a positive NPV of $100,000. However, to finance the purchase, Falcon have to issue new shares worth $70 per share. Therefore number of shares to be issued = 350,000/70 = 5000 shares.
a) If Falcon had excess cash available, it should definitely make the purchase as the NPV is positive.
b) If Falcon issues new equity to purchase the plane, it will cost them $20 per share had they not issued new equity.
Market value of equity without new issue = 50,000 x $100 = $5,000,000
Market value of equity with new issue = 50,000 x $80 + 5,000 x $70 = $4,350,000
Therefore, Falcon should not make the investment by issuing new equity.
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