Question

The First Bank of Flagstaff has issued perpetual preferred stock with a $100 par value. The bank pays a quarterly dividend of $1.65 on this stock. What is the current price of this preferred stock given a required rate of return of 11.6 percent?

Answer 1

Answer:

$56.89

Explanation:

The computation of the current price of this preferred stock is shown below:

= Annual dividend ÷ required rate of return

where,

Annual dividend equal to

= Quarterly dividend × number of quarters in a year

= $1.65 × 4 quarters

= $6.6

And, the required rate of return is 11.6%

Now put these values to the above formula  

So, the price would equal to

= $6.6 ÷ 11.6%

= $56.89