Sigra Co is a listed company producing confectionary products which it sells around the world. It wants to acquire Dentro Co, an unlisted company producing high quality, luxury chocolates. Sigra Co proposes to pay for the acquisition using one of the following three methods: 

Method 1
A cash offer of $5•00 per Dentro Co share; or

Method 2
An offer of three of its shares for two of Dentro Co’s shares; or

Method 3
An offer of a 2% coupon bond in exchange for 16 Dentro Co’s shares. The bond will be redeemed in three years at its par value of $100.

Extracts from the latest financial statements of both companies are as follows:

Sigra Co’s current share price is $3•60 per share and it has estimated that Dentro Co’s price to earnings ratio is 12•5% higher than Sigra Co’s current price to earnings ratio. Sigra Co’s non-current liabilities include a 6% bond redeemable in three years at par which is currently trading at $104 per $100 par value.

Sigra Co estimates that it could achieve synergy savings of 30% of Dentro Co’s estimated equity value by eliminating duplicated administrative functions, selling excess non-current assets and through reducing the workforce numbers, if the acquisition were successful.

Required:

Estimate the percentage gain on a Dentro Co share under each of the above three payment methods. Comment on the answers obtained. (16 marks)