You own a company that competes with Old World DVD Company (in the previous problem). Instead of

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You own a company that competes with Old World DVD Company (in the previous problem). Instead of selling DVDs, however, your company sells music downloads from a Web site. Th ings are going well now, but you know that it is only a matter of time before someone comes up with a better way to distribute music. Your company just paid a $1.50 per share dividend, and you expect to increase the dividend 10 percent next year. However, you then expect your dividend growth rate to begin going down—to 5 percent the following year, 2 percent the next year, and to -3 percent per year thereaft er. Based upon these estimates, what is the value of a share of your company’s stock? Assume that the required rate of return is 12 percent.


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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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Fundamentals of corporate finance

ISBN: 978-0470876442

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Authors: Robert Parrino, David S. Kidwell, Thomas W. Bates

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