Earnings were paid as dividends and nothing were reinvested

Assignment Help Financial Management

Reference no: EM131068372

The stock of Nogro Corporation is currently selling for $30 per share. Earnings per share in the coming year are expected to be $6. The company has a policy of paying out 50% of its earnings each year in dividends. The rest is retained and invested in projects that earn a 20% rate of return per year. This situation is expected to continue indefinitely.

a. Assuming the current market price of the stock reflects its intrinsic value as computed using the constant-growth DDM, what rate of return do Nogro’s investors require? (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

Rate of return %

b. By how much does its value exceed what it would be if all earnings were paid as dividends and nothing were reinvested?

PVGO $

Reference no: EM131068372

Questions Cloud

Issue currently sells for share : Rabie, Inc., has an issue of preferred stock outstanding that pays a $5.30 dividend every year, in perpetuity. Required: If this issue currently sells for $80.25 per share, what is the required return?

Dividend is expected to grow at some constant rate : You are considering an investment in Keller Corp's stock, which is expected to pay a dividend of $2.25 a share at the end of the year (D1 = $2.25) has a beta of 0.9. The risk-free rate is 4.9%, and the market risk premium is 4.0%. Keller currently se..

Option to expand production increase the npv of the project : Hit or Miss Sports is introducing a new product this year. If its see-at-night soccer balls are a hit, the firm expects to be able to sell 68,000 units a year at a price of $50 each. If the new product is a bust, only 48,000 units can be sold at a pr..

Nonconstant growth valuation-what is the firms horizon : Hart Enterprises recently paid a dividend, D0, of $1.75. It expects to have nonconstant growth of 12% for 2 years followed by a constant rate of 10% thereafter. The firm's required return is 12%. What is the firm's horizon, or continuing, value? What..

Earnings were paid as dividends and nothing were reinvested : The stock of Nogro Corporation is currently selling for $30 per share. Earnings per share in the coming year are expected to be $6. The company has a policy of paying out 50% of its earnings each year in dividends. By how much does its value exceed w..

Tax-exempt bond was recently issued at an annual : A tax-exempt bond was recently issued at an annual 10 percent coupon rate and matures twenty years from today. The par value of the bond is $5,000. At what required market rate (5 percent, 10percent, or 20percent) does the above bond sell at a discou..

Pays current dividend : Deployment Specialists pays a current (annual) dividend of $1 and is expected to grow at 24% for two years and then at 5% thereafter. If the required return for Deployment Specialists is 9.5%, what is the intrinsic value of Deployment Specialists sto..

What is the companys weighted-average cost of capital : Dusit is financed 33% by debt yielding 8.3%. Investors require a return of 15.3% on Dusit’s equity. What is the company’s weighted-average cost of capital if the corporate tax rate is 35%? What would be the company’s cost of capital if it were exempt..

Determine share price and new number of shares outstanding : Bermuda Triangle Corporation (BTC) currently has 350,000 shares of stock outstanding that sell for $98 per share. Assuming no market imperfections or tax effects exist. Required: Determine the share price and new number of shares outstanding if:

User Account

All Pages