What are the earnings per share and price-earnings ratio

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Walker Machine Tools has 6.6 million shares of common stock outstanding. The current market price of Walker common stock is $74 per share rights-on. The company’s net income this year is $23.00 million. A rights offering has been announced in which 660,000 new shares will be sold at $68.50 per share. The subscription price plus eight rights is needed to buy one of the new shares.

a. What are the earnings per share and price-earnings ratio before the new shares are sold via the rights offering? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Earnings per share $

Price-earnings ratio

b. What would the earnings per share be immediately after the rights offering? What would the price-earnings ratio be immediately after the rights offering? (Assume there is no change in the market value of the stock, except for the change when the stock begins trading ex-rights.) (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Earnings per share $

Price-earnings ratio

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