5. IPO stock valuation Suppose St. McCluskey Beer Co. is going public and, based on...

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5. IPO stock valuation

Suppose St. McCluskey Beer Co. is going public and, based on the bookbuilding process, decides it will be issuing 750,000 shares of common stock to raise capital to fund the companys proposed expansion. Suppose a Dutch auction (an auction in which the auctioneer begins with a high asking price and lowers it until some bidder accepts the price) is used to allocate shares in the St. McCluskey Beer Co. IPO. The following table shows the number of shares requested by potential bidders.

Bids

Number of Shares Requested

Price per Share

Bidder 1 50,000 $64
Bidder 2 100,000 $56
Bidder 3 150,000 $52
Bidder 4 200,000 $47
Bidder 5 250,000 $41
Bidder 6 300,000 $36

To sell the 750,000 shares, St. McCluskey Beer Co.s IPO minimum offer price should be

.The total amount of funding raised will be

.

Given the typical 7 percent transaction cost due to the issuing firm, the IPO would result in a transaction cost of

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