You own 100 shares of ABC Inc. ABC will pay a dividend of $2 1 year from today and it will then pay a final liquidating dividend of $140 2 years from today. The required rate of return on ABC stock is 9.4 percent per year compounded annually. What is the price of ABC stock today?
As per dividend discount model, current share price is the present value of future dividends which is calculated as follows: | ||||||
Year | Dividend | Discount factor | Present Value | |||
a | b | c=1.094^-a | d=b*c | |||
1 | $ 2 | 0.914077 | $ 1.83 | |||
2 | $ 140 | 0.835536 | $ 116.98 | |||
Total | $ 118.80 | |||||
So, | ||||||
Price of stock today is $ 118.80 | ||||||
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