1. Jersey Mining earns $9.50 a share, sells for $90, and pays a $6 per share dividend. The stock is split two for one and a $3 per share cash dividend is declared. 

   a. What will be the new price of the stock? 

   b. If the firm's total earnings do not change, what is the payout ratio before and after the stock split? 

2. Firm A had the following selected items on its balance sheet: 

Cash $ 28,000,000 

Common stock ($50 par; 2,000,000 shares outstanding) 100,000,000 

Additional paid-in capital 10,000,000 

Retained earnings 62,000,000 

How would each of these accounts appear after: 

a. a cash dividend of $1 per share? 

b. a 5 percent stock dividend (fair market value is $100 per share)? 

c. a one-for-two reverse split? 

3. Jackson Enterprises has the following capital (equity) accounts: 

Common stock ($1 par; 100,000 shares outstanding) $100,000 

Additional paid-in capital 200,000 

Retained earnings 225,000 

The board of directors has declared a 20 percent stock dividend on January 1 and a $0.25 cash dividend on March 1. What changes occur in the capital accounts after each transaction if the price of the stock is $4? 

4.   What effect will a two-for-one stock split have on the following items found on a firm's financial statements? 

   1. earnings per share $4.20      2. total equity $10,000,000 

   3. long-term debt $4,300,000      4. additional paid-in capital $1,534,000 

   5. number of shares outstanding 1,000,000 6. earnings $4,200,000 

Chapter 11 

1. The dividend-growth model may be used to value a stock: 

What is the value of a stock if: 

   a.   What is the value of this stock if the dividend is increased to $3 and the other variables remain constant? 

   b.   What is the value of this stock if the required return declines to 7.5 percent and the other variables remain constant? 

   c. What is the value of this stock if the growth rate declines to 4 percent and the other variables remain constant? 

d. What is the value of this stock if the dividend is increased to $2.30, the growth rate declines to 4 percent, and the required return remains 10 percent? 

2 Last year Artworks, Inc. paid a dividend of $3.50. You anticipate that the company's growth rate is 10 percent and have a required rate of return of 15 percent for this type of equity investment. What is the maximum price you would be willing to pay for the stock? 

3. An investor with a required return of 14 percent for very risky investments in common stock has analyzed three firms and must decide which, if any, to purchase. The information is as follows:Firm 

Firm      A     B     C 

Current Earnings     $2.00     $3.20     $7.00 

Current dividend     $1.00     $3.00     $7.50 

Expected annual growth in dividends and earnings     7%     2%     -1% 

Current market price     $23     $47     $60 

   a. What is the maximum price that the investor should pay for each stock based on the dividend-growth model? 

   b. If the investor does buy stock A, what is the implied percentage return? 

   c. If the appropriate P/E ratio is 12, what is the maximum price the investor should pay for each stock? Would your answers be different if the appropriate P/E were 7? 

   d. What does stock C's negative growth rate imply? 

5. Jersey Jewel Mining has a beta coefficient of 1.2. Currently the risk-free rate is 5 percent and the anticipated return on the market is 11 percent. JJM pays a $4.50 dividend that is growing at 6 percent annually. 

   a. What is the required return for JJM? 

   b. Given the required return, what is the value of the stock? 

   c. If the stock is selling for $80, what should you do? 

   d. If the beta coefficient declines to 1.0, what is the new value of the stock? 

   e. If the price remains $80, what course of action should you take given the valuation in (d)?

Chapter 14 

1. Big Oil Inc. has a preferred stock outstanding that pays a $9 annual dividend. If investors' required rate of return is 13 percent, what is the market value of the shares? If the required return declines to 11 percent, what is the change in the price of the stock?

2. What should be the prices of the following preferred stocks if comparable securities yield 7 percent? Why are the valuations different? 

   1. MN Inc., $8 preferred ($100 par) 

   2. CH Inc., $8 preferred ($100 par) with mandatory retirement after 20 years

4. You are considering purchasing the preferred stock of a firm but are concerned about its capacity to pay the dividend. To help allay that fear, you compute the times-preferred-dividend-earned ratio for the past three years from the following data taken from the firm's financial statements:      

Year     X1     X2     X3 

Operating Income     12000000     15000000     17000000 

Interest     3000000     5900000     11000000 

Taxes     4000000     5400000     4000000 

Preferred dividends     1000000     1000000     1500000 

Common dividends     3000000     2000000     - 

What does your analysis indicate about the firm's capacity to pay preferred stock dividends?