Suppose That Your Firm's Current Unlevered Value, V*, Is $800,000

question 2

Multiple Choice

Suppose that your firm's current unlevered value, V*, is $800,000, and its marginal corporate tax rate is 21 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?

• A)$792,000.
• B)$869,555.
• C)$920,000.
• D)$350,000.

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