Q: Corn, Inc., has an odd dividend policy. The company has just paid a dividend of $6 per share and has announced that it will increase the dividend by $2 per share for each of the next four years, and then never pay another dividend. suppose you require an 11 percent return on thecompany’s stock.Required:a) how much will you pay for a share today?b) Is the value of this stock dependent upon how long you plan to hold it? would this affect the value of the stock today?c) What happens if a company has a constant growth g that exceeds its cost of capital ks?Will many stocks have expected g> ks in the short run? In the long run (that is, forever)?

Q: Corn, Inc., has an odd dividend policy. The company has just paid a dividend of $6 per share and has announced that it will increase the dividend by $2 per share for each of the next four years, and then never pay another dividend. suppose you require an 11 percent return on thecompany’s stock.Required:a) how much will you pay for a share today?b) Is the value of this stock dependent upon how long you plan to hold it? would this affect the value of the stock today?c) What happens if a company has a constant growth g that exceeds its cost of capital ks?Will many stocks have expected g> ks in the short run? In the long run (that is, forever)?

EBK CONTEMPORARY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

14th Edition

ISBN:9781337514835

Author:MOYER

Publisher:MOYER

Chapter15: Dividend Policy

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 11P

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