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1.     Stock Values. Integrated Potato Chips paid a $2 per share dividend yesterday. You expect the dividend to grow steadily at a rate of 4 percent per year.

a. What is the expected dividend in each of the next 3 years?

b. If the discount rate for the stock is 12 percent, at what price will the stock sell?

c. What is the expected stock price 3 years from now?

d. If you buy the stock and plan to hold it for 3 years, what payments will you receive? What is the present value of those payments? Compare your answer to (b).

2.        The Club Auto Parts Company has just recently been organized. It is expected to experience no growth for the next 2 years as it identifies its market and acquires its inventory. However, Club will grow at an annual rate of 5% in the third and fourth years and, beginning with the fifth year, should attain a 10% growth rate which it will sustain thereafter. The last dividend paid was $0.50 per share. Club has a cost of capital of 12%. What should be the present price per share of Club common stock?