EXTENSION 20A

RIGHTS OFFERINGS

Note: None of the problems in this chapter extension are algorithmic.

Multiple Choice: Problems

Medium:
Subscription price and ex-rights price CO Answer: d MEDIUM
1. Autore Company’s stock now sells for $50 per share, and there are
10,000,000 shares outstanding. 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 Autore 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

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 Rights offering Answer: d MEDIUM
2. To finance the construction of a new plant, Benefield Inc. 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. 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

Subscription price to get a specified ex-rights price CO Answer: b MEDIUM

3. To finance the construction of a new plant, Benefield Inc. 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

Rights offering CO Answer c MEDIUM

4. Kotomin Inc. wants to sell stock via a rights offering. The company
has 1,000,000 shares outstanding, and they sell for $90 per share. 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

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ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS
1. Subscription price and ex-rights price CO Answer: d MEDIUM

Value for one right = R = $1. Stock price, rights on = M0 = $50.

Subscription = S = ?

M0  S
R =
N 1
$50  S
$1 = . (1)
N 1

Number of old shares

N =
Number of new shares
Number of old shares 10 ,000 ,000
Dollars raised $100 ,000 ,000
= =
S S
10,000 ,000
= = 0.1S. (2)
($100 ,000 ,000 )S

Substitute (2) into (1):

$50  S
$1 =
0.1S  1
0.1S + $1 = $50 - S
1.1S = $49
S = $44.55.

Stock price, ex-rights = Me = M0 – R = $50 – $1 = $49.

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2. Rights offering CO Answer: d MEDIUM

Funds to be raised $10,000 ,000

(1) New shares = = = 250,000 shares.
Subscription price $40

(2) Current market value of stock where P/E = 10 and EPS = $5.40:
P
 10, therefore
$5.40
P  $54.00.

Current market  (P)( Number of shares outstanding)

value of stock
 $54(1,200, 000)  $64,800,00 0.

Current market  Proceeds from

Ex - rights price value of stock new issue

per share Old shares  New shares
$64 ,800 ,000  $10 ,000 ,000
  $51.59.
1,200 ,000  250 ,000

Market value of  Subscription

(3) Value of  stock, ex - rights price
one right Number of rights to purchase one share *
$51 .59  $40 .00
  $2.41.
4 .8

* Number of rights required Old shares 1,200 ,000

   4.8.
to purchase one share New shares 250 ,000

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3. Subscription price to get a specified ex-rights price CO Answer: b MEDIUM

(1) Current market value of stock where P/E = 10 and EPS = $5.40.
P
 10, therefore
$5.40
P  $54.00.

Current market  (P)( Number of shares outstanding)

value of stock
 $54(1,200, 000)  $64,800,00 0.

(2)
Market value of stock, ex - rights
Ex-rights price =
Old shares  New shares
$74,800 ,000
$50 = ; X = 296,000 new shares issued.
1,200 ,000  X

Funds to be raised $10,000 ,000

Subscription price = = = $33.78.
New shares 296 ,000
4. Rights offering CO Answer: c MEDIUM

$8,000,000 needed
= 100,000 shares needed.
$80 / share

1,000,000 rights issued

= 10 rights per share subscribed.
100,000 shares needed

M 0  S $90  $80 $10

Value of a right     $0.91.
N 1 10  1 11

Ending value of stock = $90 - $0.91 = $89.09.

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