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Metallica Bearings, Inc., is a young start-up company. No dividends will be paid on the stock over the next nine years, because the firm needs to plow back its earnings to fuel growth. The company will pay a dividend of $12 per share in 10 years and will increase the dividend by 6 percent per year thereafter. If the required return on this stock is 11 percent, what is the current share price? |
No dividends will be paid on the stock over the next nine years. Once the stock begins paying dividends, it will have a constant growth rate of dividends.
Pt = [Dt × (1 + g)] / (R − g)
This means that since we will use the dividend in Year 10, we will be finding the stock price in Year 9.
P9 = D10 / (R − g) = $12 / (0.11 − 0.06) = $240
The price of the stock today is simply the PV of the stock price in the future.
P0 = $240 / 1.11^9 = $93.82