Westover Winds just paid a dividend of $2.10 per share. The company will increase its dividend by 8 percent next year and will then reduce its dividend growth rate by 2 percentage points per year until it reaches the industry average of 2 percent dividend growth, after which the company will keep a constant growth rate forever. What is the price of this stock today given a required return of 11 percent?

Price today = $26.54

Explanation:

The price of the stock can be calculated using the Dividend Discount Model (DDM). The DDM values the stock based on the present value of the expected future dividends from the stock.

The formula to calculate the price of the stock is attached.

Price today = 2.1 * (1+0.08) / (1+0.11)  +  2.1 * (1+0.08) * (1+0.06) / (1+0.11)^2  +  

2.1 * (1+0.08) * (1+0.06) * (1+0.04) / (1+0.11)^3  +  

[(2.1 * (1+0.08) * (1+0.06) * (1+0.04) * (1+0.02)) / (0.11 - 0.02)] / (1+0.11)^3

Price today = $26.54

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