Question

Suppose you know a company's stock currently sells for $90 per share and the required return on the stock is 14 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?

Answer 1

$5.89

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of current dividend per share is shown below:-

(Dividend in One Year) ÷ Current Price

= 14% ÷ 2

= 7%

Dividend = Dividend yield × Stock currently sold per share

= 0.07 × $90

= 6.3

Current dividend per share = Dividend ÷ (1 + Dividend yield)

= 6.3 ÷ (1 + 0.07)

= 6.3 ÷ 1.07

= $5.89

Therefore for computing the current dividend per share we simply applied the above formula.