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Assume Highline Company has just paid an annual dividend of $ 1.03. Analysts are predicting an 10.4 % per year growth rate in earnings over the next five years. After then, Highline's earnings are expected to grow at the current industry average of 4.8 % per year. If Highline's equity cost of capital is 9.1 % per year and its dividend payout ratio remains constant, for what price does the dividend-discount model predict Highline stock should sell?
| rate | 9.1000% | |
| Cash flows | Year | Discounted CF= cash flows/(1+rate)^year | 
| - | 0 | - | 
| 1.14 | 1 | 1.04 | 
| 1.26 | 2 | 1.05 | 
| 1.39 | 3 | 1.07 | 
| 1.53 | 4 | 1.08 | 
| 1.69 | 5 | 1.09 | 
| 41.17 | 5 | 26.63 | 
stock should sell for = 31.97