Altamount decides not to pay a dividend for the next 8 years but decides to pay a dividend of $9 per share 9 years from today and the dividend grows by 4 percent per year thereafter.  What is the price of the stock today if Altamount's cost of capital is 10 percent,

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Altamount decides not to pay a dividend for the next 8 years but decides to pay a dividend of $9 per share 9 years from today and the dividend grows by 4 percent per year thereafter.  What is the price of the stock today if Altamount's cost of capital is 10 percent,

  

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A model that helps to evaluate the value of the stock with the assumption that the dividend will grow every year is term as the dividend growth model.

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Computation of the price of stock:

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It is computed in the following manner:

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