An analyst on Bloomberg News recently commented that Netflix stock will start paying dividends in the near future because of all of the cash flow that it generates. When pressed on the issue, the analyst made a bold forecast that Netflix will start paying its first dividend 4 years from now in the amount of $50 per share, after which the growth rate would be a constant rate of 3%, forever. Netflix has a debt-to-equity ratio (D/E) of 0.2, the annual YTM on the company’s bonds averages 4.4% and the company’s tax rate is projected to be 30% in the future. If the risk-free rate is 2.8%, the market risk premium is 6% and Netflix’s Beta is 1.2, what should the stock sell for today based on a discounted valuation of the future dividends that the analyst projected?

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An analyst on Bloomberg News recently commented that Netflix stock will start paying dividends in the near future because of all of the cash flow that it generates. When pressed on the issue, the analyst made a bold forecast that Netflix will start paying its first dividend 4 years from now in the amount of $50 per share, after which the growth rate would be a constant rate of 3%, forever. Netflix has a debt-to-equity ratio (D/E) of 0.2, the annual YTM on the company’s bonds averages 4.4% and the company’s tax rate is projected to be 30% in the future. If the risk-free rate is 2.8%, the market risk premium is 6% and Netflix’s Beta is 1.2, what should the stock sell for today based on a discounted valuation of the future dividends that the analyst projected?

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