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question 32

Multiple Choice

Use the information for the question(s) below.
KD Industries has 30 million shares outstanding with a market price of $20 per share and no debt. KD has had consistently stable earnings, and pays a 15% tax rate. Management plans to borrow $200 million on a permanent basis through a leveraged recapitalization in which they would use the borrowed funds to repurchase outstanding shares.
-The present value of KD's interest tax shield is closest to:

• A) $130 million
• B) $200 million
• C) $400 million
• D) $70 million

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

Newly defined: A measure indicating the reliability of an estimate, often used to infer about the population parameter from sample data.

Sample

A subset of a population used in statistical analysis to estimate the characteristics of the whole population.

Mean

The average value of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all the numbers by the count of the numbers.

Standard Error

The usual measure of spread for the distribution that arises from sampling, typically concerning the mean.