An electrical contractor’s records during the last five weeks indicate the number of job requests: Week: 1 2 3 4 5
Requests: 20 22 18 21 22
Predict the number of requests for week 6 using each of these methods:
a. Naive.
b. A four-period moving average.
c. Exponential smoothing with alpha= .30. Use 20 for week 2 forecast.

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?