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A company issues $200m of new debt and uses all of it to repurchase stock. What happens to its enterprise value and its equity value?

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Equity value falls by ~$200m (shares retired) while debt rises by $200m. Enterprise value is essentially unchanged: the cash raised left as soon as it came in, so there's no net cash build, and the…

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