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Cash Flows of a Stock

Time (yrs)

Dividend ($)

Question 40 DDM, perpetuity with growth

A stock is expected to pay the following dividends:

Cash Flows of a Stock
Time (yrs)	0	1	2	3	4	...
Dividend ($)	0.00	1.00	1.05	1.10	1.15	...

After year 4, the annual dividend will grow in perpetuity at 5% pa, so;

the dividend at t=5 will be $1.15(1+0.05),
the dividend at t=6 will be $1.15(1+0.05)^2, and so on.

The required return on the stock is 10% pa. Both the growth rate and required return are given as effective annual rates.

What will be the price of the stock in three and a half years (t = 3.5)?

Question 58 NPV, inflation, real and nominal returns and cash flows, Annuity

A project to build a toll bridge will take two years to complete, costing three payments of $100 million at the start of each year for the next three years, that is at t=0, 1 and 2.

After completion, the toll bridge will yield a constant $50 million at the end of each year for the next 10 years. So the first payment will be at t=3 and the last at t=12. After the last payment at t=12, the bridge will be given to the government.

The required return of the project is 21% pa given as an effective annual nominal rate.

All cash flows are real and the expected inflation rate is 10% pa given as an effective annual rate. Ignore taxes.

The Net Present Value is:

Question 169 NPV, DDM

A stock is expected to pay the following dividends:

After year 4, the dividend will grow in perpetuity at 4% pa. The required return on the stock is 10% pa. Both the growth rate and required return are given as effective annual rates. Note that the $8 dividend at time zero is about to be paid tonight.

What is the current price of the stock?

Question 381 Merton model of corporate debt, option, real option

In the Merton model of corporate debt, buying a levered company's debt is equivalent to buying risk free government bonds and:

Question 427 takeover

Question 467 book and market values

Which of the following statements about book and market equity is NOT correct?

(a) The market value of equity of a listed company's common stock is equal to the number of common shares multiplied by the share price.

(b) The book value of equity is the sum of contributed equity, retained profits and reserves.

(c) A company's book value of equity is recorded in its income statement, also known as the 'profit and loss' or the 'statement of financial performance'.

(d) A new company's market value of equity equals its book value of equity the moment that its shares are first sold. From then on, the market value changes continuously but the book value is recorded at historical cost which typically only changes due to retained profits.

(e) To buy all of the firm's shares, generally a price close to the market value of equity will have to be paid.

Question 575 inflation, real and nominal returns and cash flows

You expect a nominal payment of $100 in 5 years. The real discount rate is 10% pa and the inflation rate is 3% pa. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

Question 620 bond pricing, income and capital returns

Let the 'income return' of a bond be the coupon at the end of the period divided by the market price now at the start of the period ##(C_1/P_0)##. The expected income return of a premium fixed coupon bond is:

Question 745 real and nominal returns and cash flows, inflation, income and capital returns

If the nominal gold price is expected to increase at the same rate as inflation which is 3% pa, which of the following statements is NOT correct?

Question 870 income and capital returns

An Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock was purchased by an investor for $120 and one year later was sold for $150. A dividend of $4 was also collected at the end of the year just before the stock was sold.

Which of the following statements about the stock investment is NOT correct? Ignore taxes.

Over the year, the investor made a: