HTA 602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stock Market, Preferred Stock, Net Present Value

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Hospitality and Tourism Management
• Course: HTA 602
• Professor: Bernard Mc Evoy

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If you buy a share of stock, you can receive cash in two ways: the company pays dividends, you sell your shares, either to another investor in the market or back to the company. As with bonds, the price of the stock is the present value of these expected cash flows. Suppose you are thinking of purchasing the stock of moore oil, inc. and you expect it to pay a dividend in one year and you believe that you can sell stock for at that time. In addition to the dividend in one year, you expect a dividend of . 10 in two years and a stock price of . 70 at the end of year 2. You could continue to push back the date when you would sell the stock. You would find that the price of the stock is really just the present value of all expected future dividends.