Question

The Oxford Heating Company has been very successful in the past four years. Over these years, it paid common stock dividend of $4 in the first year, $4.20 in the second year, $4.41 in the third year, and its most recent dividend was $4.63. The company wishes to continue this dividend growth indefinitely. The expected growth rate in dividends is closest to

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is 5%.

Explanation:

According to the scenario, the computation of the given data are as follows:

We can calculate the growth rate by using following formula:

Growth rate = (Dividend of 3rd year ÷ Dividend of 1st year)^1/2 -1

By putting the value in the formula, we get

Growth rate = ($4.41 ÷ $4 )^1/2 - 1

= ( $0.41)^1/2 -1

= 0.05 or 5%