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You are the owner of A Rinky Dink Company and you have been very successful in your business undertakings and the company has been able to grow at a modest rate of 2%. You expect that the company will be able to sustain this growth rate into the future. The company has just paid its most recent dividend of $4.50 and you have calculated that investors in the past have required a 13 percent rate of return.

a. Calculate the expected value of the share in the market today? Show your work!

b. You observe that the current market price for the company shares is $35.31. Calculate the expected return that investors are expecting now. Show your work!

c. Explain what happened. Show your work!

d. A new long term project is being considered by the company. However, the project will increase the risk associated with the company and the required rate of return will increase and investors will require a 15 percent rate of return on their investment. However, the new project will provide growth of 15 percent per year for the next 5 years and then growth will return to its normal rate of 2 percent. Should the company invest in this new project? Show your work!

e. Assuming the company takes on the project (even if you recommended that you don't take on the project in part d), calculate the rate of increase or decrease from the current stock price in the market for the company's common shares. Show your work!