a. Given the data above, calculate the present value of this security. Use the constant-growth model
(Equation 7.4) to find the stock value.
b. One year later, your broker offers to sell you additional shares of Azure at $73. The most recent
dividend paid was $3.21, and the expected growth rate for earnings remains at 7%. If you determine
that the appropriate risk premium is 6.74% and you observe that the risk-free rate, RF, is currently
5.25%, what is the firm’s current required return, rAzure?
c. Applying Equation 7.4, determine the value of the stock using the new dividend and required return
from part b.
d. Given your calculation in part c, would you buy the additional shares from your broker at $73 per
share? Explain.
e. Given your calculation in part c, would you sell your old shares for $73? Explain.