Common stock issued by Meggitt Sensing Systems paid stockholders an initial dividend of $0.93 per share on

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Common stock issued by Meggitt Sensing Systems paid stockholders an initial dividend of $0.93 per share on an average price of $18.80 last year. The company expects to grow the dividend rate at a maximum of 1.5% per year. The stock volatility is 1.19, and other stocks in the same industry are paying an average of 4.95% per year dividend. U.S. Treasury bills are returning 2.0%. Determine Meggitt’s cost of equity capital last year using

(a) The dividend method,

(b) The CAPM.

(c) To what amount could the initial year dividend have decreased before the CAPM estimate would have exceeded the dividend method estimate?

Stocks
Stocks or shares are generally equity instruments that provide the largest source of raising funds in any public or private listed company's. The instruments are issued on a stock exchange from where a large number of general public who are willing...
Cost Of Equity
The cost of equity is the return a company requires to decide if an investment meets capital return requirements. Firms often use it as a capital budgeting threshold for the required rate of return. A firm's cost of equity represents the...
Dividend
A 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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Engineering Economy

ISBN: 978-0073523439

8th edition

Authors: Leland T. Blank, Anthony Tarquin

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