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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 $15 per share 10 years from today and will increase the dividend by 5 percent per year thereafter. If the required return on this stock is 10.5 percent, what is the current share price?
Value of stock after 9 years = Dividend in Year 10/(required return - growth rate)
= 15/(10.5%-5%)
= $272.73 per share
Share price today = 272.73/(1.105)^9
= $111.04 per share