Question

Suppose that a firm's recent earnings per share and dividends per share are $3.00 and $1.50, respectively. Both are expected to grow at 10 percent. However, the firm's current P/E ratio of 20 seems high for this growth rate. The P/E ratio is expected to fall to 16 within five years. Compute a value for this stock by first estimating the dividends over the next five years and the stock price in five years. Then discount these cash flows using a 14 percent required rate.

Answer 1

Answer:

$46.90

Explanation:

The dividend in each year is the previous year's dividend multiplied by the growth factor, whereas the growth factor is 1 plus the expected growth rate of 10%, the EPS in each year would also be determined in a similar manner.

Note that the stock price is the present value of its dividends for 5 years as well as the price value of its year 5 share price(year 5 EPS*year 5 P/E ratio of 16)