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Valuation of General Electric Stock The following information is taken from Yaho

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Question

Valuation of General Electric Stock
The following information is taken from Yahoo finance for GE stock on Tuesday May 22, 2012:
Closing Price : $19.18
Beta: 1.57
Dividend history:
2005: $0.91
2006: $1.03
2007: $1.15
2008: $1.24
2009: $0.61
2010: $0.46
2011: $0.61
2012: $0.68
The market rate of return for large company stocks is 11% and the risk free rate is 3%
Using the above information, answer the following questions and show how you arrived at your answer:
1. What is the average dividend growth rate?
2. What is the required or fair rate of return for GE

Explanation / Answer

Excuse me but,what i submitted are right and i have the answers for other part as well but i am not pretty sure, should i post them as well? 2) required or fair rate of return for GE’s stock = risk free rate + average dividend growth rate = 3+0.2 = 3.2% please rate positively,,thanks