FINE 2000 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 – Stock Valuation
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8. 1 common stock valuation: harder to value shares --, future cash flows are not known, unlimited life, no way to observe the rate of return, cash flow for shareholders. P0 = (d1 + p1) / (1 + r: need the price of the share in one year to determine the current price. If price is not known, basically the pv of a share is equal to the sum of pvs of all its dividend payments in the future years. What is the price: p0 = . 50 / (. 1 / 4) = . Constant dividend: the firm will pay a constant dividend forever, this is like preferred stock, the price is computed using the perpetuity formula. If growth rate exceed the discount rate --> the stock price will be infinitely large: the model becomes useless if g > r, the stock price will grow at the same constant rate as the dividend.