You currently own 700 shares of JKL, Inc. JKL is an all equity that has 700,000 shares of stock outstanding at a market price of $25 a share. The company's earnings before interest and taxes are $3,500,000. You believe that the JKL should finance 50 percent of assets with debt, but management refuses to leverage the company. Given that similar firms' pay 5 percent interest on their debt, answer the following questions.
Part A: How much money should you borrow to create the leverage on your own? Assume you can borrow funds at 5 percent interest.
Part B: How many additional shares of JKL stock must you purchase (using the borrowed funds in Part A) to create the leverage on your own?