Question

A firm has current assets that could be sold for their book value of $22 million. The book value of its fixed assets is $60 million, but they could be sold for $90 million today. The firm has total debt with a book value of $40 million, but interest rate declines have caused the market value of the debt to increase to $50 million. What is this firm's market-to-book ratio

Answer 1

the firm market to book ratio is 1.48

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the market to book ratio is shown below:

The Market values is

= $22 million + $90 million - $50 million

= $ 62 million

And, the Book values is

= $22 million + $60 million - $40 million

= $42 million

Now the firm market to book ratio is

= $62 million ÷ $42 million

= 1.48

Hence, the firm market to book ratio is 1.48