Tanrun Inc. is expected to pay an annual dividend of $0.45 per share in one year. Analysts expect the firm's dividends to grow by 6% forever. Its stock price is $38.6 and its beta is 0.8. The risk-free rate is 2% and the expected market risk premium is 4.5%. 1. What is the best guess for the cost of equity? Recall that both Dividend Growth Model and CAPM can be used to find cost of equity. Here assume the best guess is the simple average of the two

You forecast a company to have a ROE of 15%, a dividend payout ratio of 30%. The company has a beta of 1.2. The market risk premium is 8% and the risk free rate is 2%. What is company’s forward PE ratio based on the formula? If you also know currently the company has a price of $30, and you forecast the company to have a $1 earnings per share. If firms with similar risks in the industry have a PE ratio of 27 with an estimated earnings growth rate of 12%, is the company overvalued or undervalued based on PEG approach?

You observe a stock price of $18.75. You expect a dividend growth rate of 5%, and the most recent dividend was $1.50. What is the required return? Solve using Excel

Your estimate of the market risk premium is 5%. The risk-free rate of return is 2% and General Motors has a beta of 1.34. What is General Motors' cost of equity capital?

Mackenzie Company has a price of $31 and will issue a dividend of $2.00 next year. It has a beta of 1.5, the risk-free rate is 5.4%, and the market risk premium is estimated to be 4.8%. a. Estimate the equity cost of capital for Mackenzie. b. Under the CDGM, at what rate do you need to expect Mackenzie's dividends to grow to get the same equity cost of capital as in part (a)?

The share price of a company is shs100. Its expected next dividend is shs3. The dividend and share price growth rate is expected to be 4% p.a. The risk-free interest rate is 5% p.a. The share has a beta of 0.8 and the expected yield on the stock market as a whole is 8% p.a. Use the Gordon Growth Model and the Security Market Line to form an opinion as to whether the share is correctly priced.

Barton Industries estimates its cost of common equity by using three approaches: the CAPM, the band - yield - plus - nisk - premium approach, and the DCF model. Burton expects next year's annual dividend, D₁, to be $1.70 and it expects dividends to grow at a constant rate g = 5,4% The firm's current common stock price, Po, is $20.00. The current risk-free rate, FRF, = 4.9% the market risk premium, RPM = 6.3%, and the firm's stuck has a current beta, b, = 1.40. Assume that the firm's cast of debt, rd is 10.78%. The firm uses a 3.3% risk premium when arriving at a ballpark estimate of its cost of equity using the bund-vield-risk-premium approach. What is the firm's cost of equity using each of these three approaches? CAPM cost of equity. Band yield plus visle premium: DCF cost of equity: % 1. %

Mackenzie Company has a price of $38 and will issue a dividend of $2.00 next year. It has a beta of 1.3, the risk-free rate is 5.3%, and the market risk premium is estimated to be 5.1%. a. Estimate the equity cost of capital for Mackenzie. b. Under the CDGM, at what rate do you need to expect Mackenzie's dividends to grow to get the same equity cost of capital as in part (a)? a. Estimate the equity cost of capital for Mackenzie. The equity cost of capital for Mackenzie is %. (Round to two decimal places.) b. Under the CGDM, at what rate do you need to expect Mackenzie's dividends to grow to get the same equity cost of capital as in part (a)? The expected growth rate for dividends is %. (Round to two decimal places.)

Bunkhouse Electronics is a recently incorporated firm that makes electronic entertainment systems. Its earnings and dividends have been growing at a rate of 36.5%, and the current dividend yield is 8.50%. Its beta is 1.33, the market risk premium is 14.50%, and the risk-free rate is 2.70%. a. Use the CAPM to estimate the firm's cost of equity. Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places. b. Now use the constant growth model to estimate the cost of equity. Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a whole percent. c. Which of the two estimates is more reasonable? a. Cost of equity % % c. Which of the two estimates is more reasonable? b. Cost of equity

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