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A company raises $200 million of debt and holds it as cash. What happens to enterprise value and equity value?

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Immediately: neither changes. Equity value is unchanged — shareholders own the same claims, and no value was created by borrowing. Enterprise value is also unchanged: EV = equity value + debt - cash,…

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