Mountain Teas wants to raise $14.9 million to open a new production facility. The company estimates the issue costs for legal and accounting fees will be $582,000. The underwriters have set the stock price at $27.50 a share and the underwriting spread at 8.15 percent. How many shares of stock must be sold to meet this cash need?
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Answer:
612,936 shares
Explanation:
The computation of the number of shares of stock must be sold is shown below:
Before that we have to compute
Required sales proceeds net of spread is
= (Raise amount + estimated cost for legal and accounting fees) ÷ (1 - spread rate)
= ($14.9 million + $582,000) ÷ (1 - 0.0815)
= ($1,5482,000) ÷ (1 - 0.0815)
= $16,855,743.06
So, shares to be sold is
= $16,855,743.06 ÷ $27.50
= 612,936 shares