Dividend Valuation
Dividend refers to a reward or cash that a company gives to its shareholders out of the profits. Dividends can be issued in various forms such as cash payment, stocks, or in any other form as per the company norms. It is usually a part of the profit that the company shares with its shareholders.
Dividend Discount Model
Dividend payments are generally paid to investors or shareholders of a company when the company earns profit for the year, thus representing growth. The dividend discount model is an important method used to forecast the price of a company’s stock. It is based on the computation methodology that the present value of all its future dividends is equivalent to the value of the company.
Capital Gains Yield
It may be referred to as the earnings generated on an investment over a particular period of time. It is generally expressed as a percentage and includes some dividends or interest earned by holding a particular security. Cases, where it is higher normally, indicate the higher income and lower risk. It is mostly computed on an annual basis and is different from the total return on investment. In case it becomes too high, indicates that either the stock prices are going down or the company is paying higher dividends.
Stock Valuation
In simple words, stock valuation is a tool to calculate the current price, or value, of a company. It is used to not only calculate the value of the company but help an investor decide if they want to buy, sell or hold a company's stocks.
Company XYZ does not currently pay a dividend. However, their earnings have been growing at a very high rate. Thus, they are expected to begin paying a dividend, starting 7 years from today. Expectations are that the first dividend will be $ 3.5 per share. The dividend is then expected to grow at 31 % per year for 6 years, and at the end of that super-normal growth period, the stock will enter a slower growth perpetuity phase of 4 % per year. The required return on Agilent stock is 16 %. What should be their current stock price? (Please make sure to not do any intermediate rounding and keep at least 6 decimal points throughout solving this problem. Round your final answer to three decimal places. For example 1.23450 or 1.23463 will be rounded to 1.235 while 1.23448 will be rounded to 1.234)
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