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Hot Wings, Inc. has just paid a dividend of $2 per share and has
announced that it will increase the dividend by $1.5 per share for
each of the next 5 years, and then will increase the dividend at a
constant growth rate of 5% a year forever. If you want a return of
9 percent per year, how much will you pay for the stock?
| we have to use dividend discount model to compute the terminal value | ||||||
| Price today is the present value of future cash flow | ||||||
| i | ii | iii=i+ii | iv | v | vi=iv*v | |
| year | Dividend | Terminal value | total cash flow | PVIF @ 9% | present value | |
| 1 | 3.5000 | 3.50 | 0.9174 | 3.21 | ||
| 2 | 5.0000 | 5.00 | 0.8417 | 4.21 | ||
| 3 | 6.5000 | 6.50 | 0.7722 | 5.02 | ||
| 4 | 8.0000 | 8.00 | 0.7084 | 5.67 | ||
| 5 | 9.5000 | 249.38 | 258.88 | 0.6499 | 168.25 | |
| Price = | 186.36 | |||||
| Terminal value = Divided in year 6/(required rate - growth rate) | ||||||
| 9.5*105%/(9%-5%) | ||||||
| 249.375 | ||||||
| Price today = | $ 186.36 |