In: Finance
Smiling Elephant, Inc., has an issue of preferred stock
outstanding that pays a $5.60 dividend every year, in
perpetuity.
If this issue currently sells for $80.40 per share, what is the
required return? (Do not round intermediate calculations
and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places,
e.g., 32.16.)
Required return
%
Required return = Dividend / Share price
Required return = $5.60 / $80.40 = 0.0697 = 6.96%
The required return is 6.96%