PROBLEM 4-2: Debt to Capital Ratio
Kaye’s Kitchenware has a market/book ratio equal to 1. Its stock price is $12 per share and it has 4.8 million shares outstanding. The firm’s total capital (TIC) is $110 million, and it finances with only debt and common equity. What is its debt-to-capital ratio?
Hint:
What is its Market Value of Equity (MVE) - Think MVA?
Here market value per stock = 12 per stock
Market value / book value of per stock = 1
Market value per stock = book value per stock = $ 12
Outstanding shares = 4,800,000 million shares
Market value of equity = 4,800,000 * 12 = $ 57,600,000
Total firm value = $ 110,000,000
Debt value = total value - equity value = $110,000,000 - 57,600,000 = $ 52,400,000
Debt to capital ratio = debt / total capital value = 52,400,000 / 110,000,000 = 0.4763636364
Debt to capital ratio = 47.636364%
Debt to capital ratio = 47.64%
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