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Valuation: Stock Valuation Before Regional Bank was bought by Bank of America, Tina Brown was considering...

Valuation: Stock Valuation

Before Regional Bank was bought by Bank of America, Tina Brown was considering the purchase of Regional Bank's common stock. Given Regional Bank's recent merger with the Southeastern powerhouse, Bank South, and talks of penetration into the Florida market via a takeover of Barnett Bank, Tina felt Regional Bank would be a solid "buy and hold" as it continued to increase its market share through aggressive growth by acquisition.

While Tina was convinced she wanted to own Regional Bank, with all the price volatility surrounding the recent speculations, she was not sure if the price was above or below the stock's intrinsic value. She decided to derive the price of Regional Bank's common stock by using the Gordon Growth Model (Constant Growth Model).

To use the Gordon Growth Model, Tina had to first calculate Regional Bank's required rate of return on their common stock. The risk free rate, as proxied by the yield on a three month Treasury Bill, was 6%. The return on the market, as proxied by the return on the Standard and Poor's 500 (S&P 500), was 10%. Nations Bank had a beta of 1.75.

Past dividend payments also had to be known. Tina was not sure how far back into the future she should go to retrieve the dividend payment information, so she arbitrarily stopped in 1987. Between 1987 and 1990, Regional Bank seemed to have very different payout amounts. Not fully understanding the reasons behind these differences, Tina decided to consider two periods for analysis: from 1987-1995 and from 1990-1995. The dividend information that Tina recovered is shown below in Table 1.

Table 1

Year

Dividends

1995

$2.00 ($1.00 through June 1995)

1994

$1.88

1993

$1.64

1992

$1.51

1991

$1.48

1990

$1.42

1989

$1.10

1988

$0.94

1987

$0.86

Questions

  1. Consider the first time period from 1987-1995. Use the Gordon Growth Model to determine the price of Nations Bank's common stock.
  2. Consider the second time period from 1990-1995. Use the Gordon Growth Model to determine the price of Nations Bank's common stock.
  3. The answers for questions 2 and 3 are very different. What does this indicate, in general, about the Gordon Growth Model? (Hint–The observed market price of Nations Bank's common stock is $70.25.)
  4. What effect does the stock's required rate of return have on the calculation of its stock price when using the Gordon Growth Model?
  5. If you felt that Nations Bank's last year dividend of $2.00 was going to be paid in that constant amount throughout the remainder of the company's life (i.e. zero growth), what would be the value of the stock today?
  6. Based on your response to question 6, what is the relationship between the present value of a dividend paid one year from now, a dividend paid ten years from now and a dividend paid one hundred years from now?

Solutions

Expert Solution

Regional Bank's Required rate of return on their common stock , as per CAPM is
ke=RFR+(Beta*Market return-RFR))
ie.6%+(1.75*(10%-6%))=
13.00%
2.Stock price at end of 1986 =
(0.86/1.13^1)+(0.94/1.13^2)+(1.1/1.13^3)+(1.42/1.13^4)+(1.48/1.13^5)+(1.51/1.13^6)+(1.64/1.13^7)+(1.88/1.13^8)+(2/1.13^9)=
6.73
3..Stock price at end of 1989 =
(1.42/1.13^1)+(1.48/1.13^2)+(1.51/1.13^3)+(1.64/1.13^4)+(1.88/1.13^5)+(2/1.13^6)=
6.45
Value at end of 1986= 6.45/1.13^3= 4.47
4.Gordon Growth Model values stock based on the actual /forecasted dividend cash flows --which may not reflect fully, the trends in the market.
5.The more the investor's required rate of return, the less the stock price.
6.Value of stock today=PV of prpetuity=CF1/Reqd. return
Constant dividend/Reqd. return
ie. 2/13%=
15.38
7. The more later , it is paid, the lesser the present value--the earlier it is paid, the more the stock's value/price.

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