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Robert Campbell and Carol Morris are
senior vice-presidents of the Mutual of Chicago Insurance Company.
They are co-directors of the company’s pension fund management
division. A major new client has requested that Mutual of Chicago
present an investment seminar to illustrate the stock valuation
process. As a result, Campbell and Morris have asked you to analyze
the Bon Temps Company, an employment agency that supplies word
processor operators and computer programmers to businesses with
temporarily heavy workloads. You are to answer the following
questions.
- What is the difference between common stock and preferred
stock? What are some of the characteristics of each type of
stock?
- (1) Write a formula that can be used to value
any stock, regardless of its dividend pattern.
(2) What is a constant growth stock? How do you
value a constant growth stock?
(3) What happens if
the growth is constant, and g > rs? Will many stocks
have g > rs?
- Bon Temps has an issue of preferred stock outstanding that pays
stockholders a dividend equal to $10 each year. If the appropriate
required rate of return for this stock is 8%, what is its market
value?
- Assume that Bon Temps is a constant growth company whose last
dividend (D0, which was paid yesterday) was $2 and whose
dividend is expected to grow indefinitely at a 6% rate. The
appropriate rate of return for Bon Temps’ stock is 16%.
(1) What is the firm’s expected dividend stream over the
next 3 years?
(2) What is the firm’s current stock price?
(3) What is the stock’s expected value one year from
now?
(4) What are the expected dividend yield, the capital
gains yield, and the total return during the first year?
- Assume that Bon Temps’ stock is currently selling at $21.20.
What is the expected rate of return on the stock?
- Assume that Bon Temps is expected to experience
supernormal growth of 30% for the next 3 years, then to return to
its long-run constant growth rate of 6%. What is the stock’s value
under these conditions? What are its expected dividend yield and
its capital gains yield in Year 1? In Year 4?
- Suppose Bon Temps is expected to experience zero growth
during the first three years and then to resume its steady-state
growth of 6% in the fourth year. What is the stock’s value now?
What are its expected dividend yield and its capital gains yield in
Year 1? In Year 4?