This ones a little harder. Suppose the current share price for the firm in Problem 6.48 is
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This one’s a little harder. Suppose the current share price for the firm in Problem 6.48 is $78.43, and all the dividend information remains the same. What required return must investors be demanding on Storico stock?
Problem 6.48
Storico Co. just paid a dividend of $3.85 per share. The company will increase its dividend by 20 percent next year and will then reduce its dividend growth rate by 5 percentage points per year until it reaches the industry average of 5 percent dividend growth, after which the company will keep a constant growth rate forever. If the required return on Storico stock is 13 percent, what will a share of stock sell for today?
DividendA dividend is a distribution of a portion of company’s earnings, decided and managed by the company’s board of directors, and paid to the shareholders. Dividends are given on the shares. It is a token reward paid to the shareholders for their...
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Corporate Finance
ISBN: 978-0071339575
7th Canadian Edition
Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe, Gordon Ro