EXTENSION 18A—RIGHTS OFFERINGS
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. There are 10,000,000 shares outstanding of O’Connell Co.’s stock, which now sells for $50 per share.
The company plans to raise $100 million as new equity by selling common stock. Since the
preemptive right is in the corporate charter, rights will be used. Management has decided that the
rights should be worth $1 each: Such a price would assure that most stockholders would either
exercise or sell their rights rather than just letting them expire, yet a careless failure to use the rights
would not impose too severe a hardship on anyone. What subscription price should O’Connell set for
its offering to obtain the desired price of the rights, and what will be the ex-rights stock price (Me),
assuming the theoretical relationships hold? (Hint: N = Number of old shares/Number of new shares;
Number of new shares = Dollars to be raised/Subscription price per share.)
Sub Price Ex-rights
a.
$39.65 $42.50
b.
$40.25 $43.50
c.
$42.65 $47.50
d.
$44.55 $49.00
e.
$46.65 $50.00
2. Pietersen Corporation must raise an additional $10,000,000 of equity capital through the sale of
common stock in order to finance the construction of a new plant. The firm currently has an EPS of
$5.40 and a P/E ratio of 10, with 1,200,000 shares outstanding. The firm will offer new shares to its
current stockholders at $40 per share. Find (1) the number of new shares to be issued, (2) the ex-rights
price of the stock (assuming that the new market value of the stock will simply be the proceeds of the
new issue plus the current value of equity, divided by new shares outstanding), and (3) the value of
one right.
New Shs Ex-rights Rights
a.
200,000 $39.65 $1.38
b.
230,000 $40.25 $1.85
c.
230,000 $42.65 $2.16
d.
250,000 $51.59 $2.41
e.
250,000 $46.65 $2.78
3. To finance the construction of a new plant, Pietersen Corporation must raise an additional $10,000,000
of equity capital through the sale of common stock. The firm currently has an EPS of $5.40 and a P/E
ratio of 10, with 1,200,000 shares outstanding. If the firm wants its ex-rights price to be $50, what
subscription price must it set on the new shares?
a.
$29.55
b.
$33.78
c.
$39.28
d.
$41.80
e.
$50.00
4. Ritzer Company has 1,000,000 shares of stock outstanding that sell for $90 per share. The company
wants to sell stock via a rights offering. The new issue will be used to raise $8 million of new equity,
and existing shareholders will receive one right per share held. Theoretically, if the subscription price
is $80, (1) how many new shares must be sold, (2) how many rights per share of new stock will be
required, (3) what will the value of each right be, and (4) what will the stock price be after the rights
offering has been completed?
New Shs No. of Rights Value Ending Price
a.
100,000 8 $1.38 $88.62
b.
100,000 9 $1.05 $88.95
c.
100,000 10 $0.91 $89.09
d.
120,000 8 $1.05 $88.95
e.
120,000 10 $1.38 $88.62