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The ECN Corporation is an all equity firm and its current financial manager plan to dissolve the firm in two years. The corporation has announced that it will pay $0.6 per share dividend to shareholders in one year. In two years, ECN will pay a liquidating dividend of $60 per share. The required return on ECN stock is 18%. Lily owns 10,000 shares in the company.
GIVEN:
Dividend per share in one year= $0.6
Liquidating dividend= $60
required return on ECN stock = 18%
The Dividend, lily is supposed to receive by an year end
= =$6000
When Lily uses homemade dividends to create two equal annual dividend payments which is=$6000+$6000=$12000
Suppose the current price of the ECN stock is "x"
By the end of year one:
the price of the ECN stock rises above by 18% of the current price= x+18%of x= 1.18x
So,if we assume the current price of the ECN stock to be 100 or x=100 then, the price in the end of the year would be 118.
Current values of the 10,000 shares= $1000000
value of the shares in the one year= 118*1000= $118000
Total capital gain= 118000-100000= $18000
gain per share= 18000/10000= $18