Antiques R Us is a mature manufacturing firm. The company just paid a dividend of $9.80, but management expects to reduce the payout by 4 percent per year indefinitely. If you require a return of 9.5 percent on this stock, what will you pay for a share today?
As per dividend discount model, | |||||||||||
Price of share today | = | D0*(1+g)/(Ke-g) | Where, | ||||||||
= | 9.80*(1+(-0.04))/(0.095-(-0.04)) | D0 | Last dividend | $ 9.80 | |||||||
= | $ 69.69 | g | growth rate | -0.040 | |||||||
Ke | Required return | 0.095 | |||||||||
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