Question

? X Calculating stock price - Excel FORMULAS DATA REVIEW - Sign In FILE HOME INSERT PAGE LAYOUT VIEW Arial -12 A À Paste B IU B A Alignment Number Conditional Format as Cell Formatting Table Styles Styles Cells - Editing Clipboard Font D16 д в E F G H K Metallica Bearings, Inc., is a young start-up company. No dividends will be paid on the stock over the next nine years because the firm needs to plow back its earnings to fuel growth. The company will pay a $14 per share dividend 10 years from today and will increase the dividend by 3.9 percent per year thereafter. If the required return on this stock is 12.5 percent, what is the current share price? 14.00 Future dividend Years until first dividend Dividend growth rate Required return 10 3.9% 12.5% Complete the following analysis. Do not hard code values in your calculations. Stock price in 9 years $ 162.79 Stock price today ... Sheet1 ... + | | | | | - -+ 100% READY Attempt(s) 5/9

Answer 1

In cell D14
=D6/(D9-D8)
=14/(12.5%-3.9%)
=162.790698

In cell D16
=D14/(1+D9)^(D7-1)
=162.790698/1.125^9
=56.397114