Income Statement Consider a firm with an EBIT of $5,000,000. The firm finances its
assets with $20,000,000 debt (costing 5 percent) and 70,000 shares of stock selling at
$50.00 per share. To reduce the firm’s risk associated with this financial leverage, the firm
is considering reducing its debt by $5,000,000 by selling an additional 100,000 shares of
stock. The firm is in the 40 percent tax bracket. The change in capital structure will have
no effect on the operations of the firm. Thus, EBIT will remain $5,000,000. What is the
change in the firm’s EPS from this change in capital structure?