Question: Please provide feedback with an excel attachment. The companys payout ratio has been 56% over the last nine years and the last quoted price of

Please provide feedback with an excel attachment.

The companys payout ratio has been 56% over the last nine years and the last quoted price of the firms share of stock was $17. Flotation costs for new equity will be 8%. The company has 34,000,000 of common shares of stock outstanding and a debt-equity ratio of 0.4.

If dividends are expected to grow at the same arithmetic average growth rate of the last nine years, what is the dividend payment per share in 2016?

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Use the following data for the next 3 questions

The following are the company sales from 2000-2015

Year

Xylophone

2000

$230

2001

$573

2002

$994

2003

$1,683

2004

$3,192

2005

$6,140

2006

$8,892

2007

$13,586

2008

$18,376

2009

$29,476

2010

$33,598

2011

$44,208

2012

$58,473

2013

$96,368

2014

$149,306

2015

$204,397

  • Fit an exponential trend curve to the data- show the equation
  • Calculate the projected sales in 2016
  • What is the CAGR over the 2000-2015 period?

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