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Ferson, Inc., just paid a dividend of $3.00 on its stock. The growth rate in dividends is expected to be a constant 5 percent per year indefinitely. Investors require a 16 percent return on the stock for thr first three years, a 14 percent return for the next three years, and then an 11 percent return thereafter. What is the current share price for Ferson stock?

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The solution explains how to calculate the current price of stock using the dividend discount model.

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Since the discount rate changes, we need to calculate the values separately for the periods when the discount rate changes.
From year 7, the discount rate is 11%. We first calculate the Value in year 6 using the constant growth model. The dividends are growing at a constant rate of ...

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