1. You expect the price of IBX stock to be $59.77 per share a year from now.
Its current market
price is $50, and you expect it to pay a dividend 1 year from now of $2.15 per share.
a. What are the stock’s expected dividend yield, rate of price appreciation, and holding-period
return?
b. If the stock has a beta of 1.15, the risk-free rate is 6% per year, and the expected rate of
return on the market portfolio is 14% per year, what is the required rate of return on IBX
stock?
c. What is the intrinsic value of IBX stock, and how does it compare to the current market
price?
2.
a. IBX’s stock dividend at the end of this year is expected to be $2.15, and it is expected to
grow at 11.2% per year forever. If the required rate of return on IBX stock is 15.2% per year,
what is its intrinsic value?
b. b. If IBX’s current market price is equal to this intrinsic value, what is next year’s expected
price?
c. c. If an investor were to buy IBX stock now and sell it after receiving the $2.15 dividend a
year from now, what is the expected capital gain (i.e., price appreciation) in percentage
terms? What are the dividend yield and the holding-period return?
3.
a. Calculate the price of a firm with a plowback ratio of 0.60 if its ROE is 20%. Current earnings,
E1 , will be $5 per share, and k =12.5%.
b. What if ROE is 10%? Compare the firm’s price in this instance to that of a firm with the same
ROE and E1 , but a plowback ratio of b= 0.
4. ABC stock has an expected ROE of 12% per year, expected earnings per share of $2, and
expected dividends of $1.50 per share. The required return is 10% per year.
a. What are its expected growth rate, its price, and its P/E ratio?
b. If the plowback ratio were 0.4, what would be the expected dividend per share, the growth
rate, price, and the P/E ratio?