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Financial Technology Corp. is expected to pay a dividend of $3.30 today but dividends are expected to grow at 5% per year going forward. The required return is 9.5%. What is the price expected to be in year 4?
Step1: Computation of Vaue for the 1st 4 years | ||||||
Year | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Dividend ($) | 3.30 | 3.47 | 3.64 | 3.82 | 4.01 | 4.21 |
(3.3*1.05) | (3.47*1.05) | (3.64*1.05) | (3.82*1.05) | (4.01*1.05) | ||
Discount [email protected]% | 1 | 0.9132 | 0.8340 | 0.7617 | 0.6956 | 0.6352 |
Present value @ 9.5% | 3.16 | 3.04 | 2.91 | 2.79 | 2.67 | |
Expected price in year 4= | Expected dividend in year 5/(ke-g) | |||||
= | 4.21/(0.095-0.05) | |||||
=$ | 93.6 | |||||
As per gordon Model, Expected price(P0)=Expected dividend in Year1/(Ke-g) | ||||||
Where ke=cost of capital and g=constant growth rate. | ||||||