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A stock just paid an annual dividend of $5.3. The dividend is expected to grow by 4% per year for the next 4 years. In 4 years, the P/E ratio is expected to be 21 and the payout ratio to be 60%.
The required rate of return is 8%.
Part 1
What should be the current stock price?
Given information
Dividend paid = $5.3
required rate of return is 8%
Groth rate of dividend = 4% per year for four years
For this problem current stock price is calculated in four steps.
step 1) calculating dividend for year4
step 2) calculating earning pershare at year 4
step 3) calculating market price of share ( stock price) at year 4
step 4) and last calculating present value of dividends and stock price of share at year 4 for computing current stock price.