Questions 1.  Protos, Inc., has no debt outstanding and a total market value of

Questions
1.  Protos, Inc., has no debt outstanding and a total market value of $300,000. Earnings before interestand taxes, EBIT, are projected to be $25,000 if economic conditions are normal. If there is strongexpansion in the economy, then EBIT will be 25 percent higher. If there is a recession, then EBIT willbe 50 percent lower. Money is considering a $100,000 debt issue with an interest rate of 6  percent.The proceeds will be used to repurchase shares of stock. There are currently 5,000 sharesoutstanding. Ignore taxes for this problem.
a) Calculate earnings per share, EPS, under each of the three economic scenarios before anydebt is issued. Also calculate the
percentage changes in EPS when the economy expands or enters a recession.
b) Repeat part (a) assuming that Protos goes through with recapitalization. What do you observe?
2.   Repeat parts (a) and (b) in Problem 1 assuming Protos  has a tax rate of 25 percent.
3.- The company with the common equity accounts shown here has declared a stock dividend of 15 percent when the market value of its stock is $45 per share. What effects on the equity  accounts will the distribution of the stock dividend have?
   4.- Sangria Corporation has a target capital structure of 65 percent common stock and 35 percent debt. Its cost of equity is 16  percent, and the cost of debt is 6 percent. The relevanttax rate is 25 percent. What is Sangria’s WACC?
5.- Given the following information for Telefonica Co., find the WACC.
Assume the company’s tax rate is 15 percent.
Debt:  5,000 bonds outstanding, 5 percent coupon, $1,000 par value, 10 years to maturity, selling for 105 percent of par; the bonds make semiannual payments.
Common stock:
185,000 shares outstanding, selling for $60 per share; the beta is 1.20.
Market: 8 percent market risk premium and 4 percent risk-free rate.