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The ECN Corporation is an all equity firm and its current financial manager plan to dissolve the firm in two years. The corporation has announced that it will pay $0.6 per share dividend to shareholders in one year. In two years, ECN will pay a liquidating dividend of $60 per share. The required return on ECN stock is 18%. Lily owns 10,000 shares in the company.
Solution:
Given:
Dividend per share in one year= $0.6
Liquidating dividend= $60
required return on ECN stock = 18%
a) The Dividend, lily is supposed to receive by an year end = 0.6*1000= $6000
When Lily uses homemade dividends to create two equal annual dividend payments which is=$6000+$6000=$12000
Suppose the current price of the ECN stock is "x"
By the end of year one:
the price of the ECN stock rises above by 18% of the current price= x+18%of x= 1.18x
So,if we assume the current price of the ECN stock to be 100 or x=100 then, the price in the end of the year would be 118.
Current values of the 10,000 shares= $1000000
value of the shares in the one year= 118*1000= $118000
Total capital gain= 118000-100000= $18000
gain per share= 18000/10000= $18
Now, Lily has to create two equal dividends, which could be done with the "Homemade dividend".Homemade dividend is dividend which we receive after selling our holding shares.
By the end of the year, there is a capital gain of 18(118-100) per share, which means Lily has to sell around 334 (334*18= $6012)shares to create two equal dividends, one from the dividend and other from the seeling of shares.