Abe Forrester and three of his friends from college have interested a group of venture capitalists in backing their business idea. The proposed operation would consist of a series of retail outlets to distribute and service a full line of vacuum cleaners and accessories. These stores would be located in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. To finance the new venture two plans have been proposed:
Plan A is an all-common-equity structure in which 2.3 million dollars would be raised by selling86000 shares of common stock.
Plan B would involve issuing 1.3 million dollars in long-term bonds with an effective interest rate of 12.1% plus 1.0 million would be raised by selling 43000 shares of common stock. The debt funds raised under Plan B have no fixed maturity date, in that this amount of financial leverage is considered a permanent part of the firm's capital structure. Abe and his partners plan to use a 40% tax rate in their analysis, and they have hired you on a consulting basis to do the following:
a. find the EBIT indifference level associated with the two financing plans (Round to the nearest dollar)