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the carmar company has preffered stock that is selling at $22 per share and its

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Question

the carmar company has preffered stock that is selling at $22 per share and its preferred stockholders have a required return of 14.54%. The company has common stock too and expects to pay dividends of $1.10 per share in 2016, $1.00 in 2017, zero in 2018 and $1.05 in 2019. It also expects that the market price of its common stock in 2019 will be $37 per share. Common stockholders have a required rerun of 16%. (a) what dividend does the preferred stock pay? (b) what is the value of the common stock in 2015?

Explanation / Answer

Dividend of Preference Share= Cost of Preference share*Price(ex divididend)

Given: cost of Pref share 14.54%, Price (assume ex dividend)=$22

So, Dividend = 22*0.1454=3.20

So dividend per Preference Share is $3.20

b.

Year

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Discount factor@16%

1

0.862

0.743

0.641

0.552

Dividend

1.1

1

0

1.05

PV of Dividend

2.271

0.948

0.743

0.000

0.580

Share Price

37

PV of share Price

20.43

Total PV of Dividends & Share price

22.71

So current share price in 2015 = $22.71

Year

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Discount factor@16%

1

0.862

0.743

0.641

0.552

Dividend

1.1

1

0

1.05

PV of Dividend

2.271

0.948

0.743

0.000

0.580

Share Price

37

PV of share Price

20.43

Total PV of Dividends & Share price

22.71

So current share price in 2015 = $22.71