You currently own 1,400 shares of RBJ, Inc. RBJ is an all equity firm that has 100,000 shares of stock outstanding at a market price of $45 per share. The company's EBIT are $800,000. You believe that RBJ should finance 20% of assets with debt but management refuses to leverage the company. Given that similar firms pay 8% on debt, answer the following two questions;
A) How much money should you borrow to create the leverage on your own assuming you can borrow funds at 8% interest?
B) How many additional shares of RBJ stock must you purchase to create the leverage on you own?