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You own 1,500 shares of stock in a company that is 25% debt financed. The stock price is $50 per share. You want to use homemade leverage to unlever your shares to replicate an all-equity capital structure. What amount will you borrow or lend?
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Company is 25% Debt financed. so debt ratio is 25% |
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Investor value of shares = number of shares * Market value per share |
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1500*50 | |
75000 | |
To create homemade un leverage position(all Equity), Investor will have to lend that amount of which has been borrowed by Firm that is 25% |
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So 25% of Investment value will be lend by investor to create unleveraged position. |
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75000*25%= | 18750 |
So investor will have to lend $18750 to create an homemade unlevereged position |