Question

Great Lakes Steel Supply is losing significant market share and thus its managers have decided to decrease the firm's annual dividend. The last annual dividend was $130 per share but all future dividends will be decreased by 275 percent annual What is a share of this stock worth today at a required return of 155 percent? a. $609 b. $6.93 c. $6.50 d. $6.68 e. $6.98

Answer 1

Answer:

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"Great Lakes Steel Supply is losing significant market share and thus its managers have decided to decrease the firm's annual dividend. The last annual dividend was $1.30 per share but all future dividends will be decreased by 2.75 percent annually. What is a share of this stock worth today at a required return of 15.5 percent? "

Explanation:

Use dividend discount model (DDM) to calculate the stock price

$P0 = \frac{D0(1+g)}{r-g}$

whereby,

P0 = Current price

D0 = Last dividend paid = 130

g = growth rate = -275% or -2.75 as a decimal

r = required return = 155% or 1.55 as a decimal

Next, plug in the numbers to the DDM formula above;

$P0 = \frac{1.30(1-0.0275)}{0.155 + 0.0275} \\ \\ = \frac{1.2643}{0.1825} \\ \\ =6.9277$

Therefore this stock is worth $6.93