Help Please! (10 points) Cunningham Cuisine is an all-equity financed company operating in the culinary...

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(10 points) Cunningham Cuisine is an all-equity financed company operating in the culinary arts and family restaurant segments. Cunningham Cuisine has an equity value of $500 million. The culinary arts division is worth $80 million and has a beta of 3.0. The family restaurant division has a beta of 1.2. The risk free rate is 3% and the expected excess return on the market is 5.25%. Assume no taxes.

a.If the company has no debt, what is the beta of Cunningham cuisines equity?

b.If the company has no debt, what is the expected return on Cunningham Cuisines stock?

c.Cunningham Cuisine has decided to issue debt and use the proceeds to buy back some of its stock. As a result, Cunningham Cuisine will now be financed with $100 million in debt and $400 million in equity and the beta of debt will be 0.15. What will be the expected return on the stock? (for part c, the total value of the company is still $500 million as in parts a and b).

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