2. Boilermaker Corp has a beta of 0.8. The market return is expected to be 15%, and the current risk-free rate is 4%. We have used analysts’ estimates to determine that the market believes our dividends will grow at 5% per year and our last dividend was $1. The stock is currently selling for $12.00. What is the company’s cost of equity using the Security Market Line and using the Dividend Growth Model?

Storico co. just paid a dividend of $3.15 per share. the company will increase its dividend by 20 percent next year and then reduce its dividend growth rate by 5 percentage points per year until it reaches the industry average of 5 percent dividend growth, after which the company will keep a constant growth rate forever. if the required return on the company’s stock is 12 percent, what will a share of stock sell for today?