Pattys Gardening Supplies is a young start-up company. It plans to pay no dividends over the next

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Patty’s Gardening Supplies is a young start-up company. It plans to pay no dividends over the next five years because it must reinvest all earnings in the firm to finance planned growth. The firm then plans to begin dividends of $3 per share, which are anticipated to grow at 10 per cent per year for three years, and six percent per year in perpetuity beyond that. If the required return on Patty’s Gardening Supplies stock is 15 percent, what should be today's stock price?

Perpetuity
Perpetuity refers to payments that are made without an end or maturity date. A perpetuity is classified as an annuity, which is something that earns a dividend or receives a payment at a regularly scheduled interval, generally yearly. So, how...
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Financial Institutions, Markets and Money

ISBN: 978-1119330363

12th edition

Authors: David S. Kidwell, David W. Blackwell, David A. Whidbee, Richard W. Sias

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