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A company borrows $100 of debt to pay a $100 dividend. How does this affect Enterprise Value?
Answer
EV is unchanged. Debt rises by $100 (EV up $100), but cash is unchanged because the cash raised was immediately paid out as a dividend — it never sat on the balance sheet.
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