You are trying to determine the appropriate price to pay for a share of common stock. if you purchase this stock, you plan to hold it for 1 year. at the end of the year you expect to receive a dividend of $5.50 and to sell the stock for $154. the appropriate rate of return for this stock is 16 percent. what should the current price of this stock be?

Adrawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is thata. it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent. b. the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality. c. it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide. d. the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.