# Math Help - Constant and nonconstant growth valuation

1. ## Constant and nonconstant growth valuation

1-A company currently pays dividnd of $2 per share. It is estimated that the conpnay's divivend will grow at a rate of 20% per year for the next 2 years and then grow at a constant 7% therafter. The compnay's stock has a beta equal to 1.2, the risk-free rate is 7.5% and the narket risk premium is 4%. What s your estimate of tyhe stock's current price? 2- The risk-free rate of return is 11%, the requires rate of return on the market is 14% and Schuler Compnay's stock has a beta coefficent of 1.5. a. If the dividend expected during the coming year is$2.25 and g= a constant 5%, at what price should Schuler's stock sell?

b. Now, suppose the Federal Reserve Baord increses the money supply, causing the risk-free rate to drop to 9% and the rate on the market falls to 12%. what would this do to the price of the stock?

2. It has been a little while since I did these type of questions... so hopefully I haven't done anything incorrectly.
1- by the CAPM, the discount rate for the company is
$i=r_{f}+\beta \left( r_{m}-r_{f} \right) = 0.075+1.2(0.04)=0.123$ or $12.3\%$

Given that the company receives a current divdend of $2, the dividend in year 1 will be$2.40 which gets discounted 1 year, and \$2.88 in year 2 which gets discounted 2. In year three, the dividend grows by 7% and grows indefinitly at this rate. Using the PV of a perputiuty formula will discount these future cash flows into year 2, so they then need to be discounted back a further 2 years to get the PV.
So the current share price is equal to the discounted value of these cashflows;
$
PV = \frac{2.40}{1+0.123}+\frac{2.88}{(1+0.123)^2}+\fra c{\left[\frac{2.88(1+0.07)}{0.123-0.07}\right]}{(1+0.123)^2}=\50.52504
$

edit: i made a mistake when i discounted the PV of the growing dividends... Something doesn't look right now?