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Suppose you know a company's stock currently sells for $90 per share and the required return on the stock is 15 percent. You also know that the total return on the stock is evenly divided between a capital gains yield and a dividend yield. If it's the company's policy to always maintain a constant growth rate in its dividends, what is the current dividend per share

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Answer:

$ 3.87

Step-by-step explanation:

It is given that :

Cost of the company's stock per share = $ 90

The required return on the stock is = 15 %

Therefore, the dividend yield =
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We known that


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= 4.05

The current dividend is,


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= $ 3.87

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