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Monsters Inc. is a utility company that recently paid a common stock dividend of $5.45 per share. If its divided growth rate is expected to remain at 4 percent per year indefinitely and its equity cost of capital is 9 percent, the current price of a share of Monsters' common stock is closest to $________.
D0 = Current Dividend = $5.45
g = growth rate = 4%
r = equity cost of capital = 9%
D1 = Expected Dividend = D0 * (1+g) = $5.45 * (1+4%) = $5.668
Current Price of share of common stock = D1 / (r - g)
= $5.668 / (9%-4%)
= $113.36
Therefore, Current price of a shareof Monsters' common stock is closest to $113.36