Suppose that a firm’s recent earnings per share and dividend per share are $2.50 and $1.50, respectively. Both are expected to grow at 9 percent. However, the firm’s current P/E ratio of 24 seems high for this growth rate. The P/E ratio is expected to fall to 20 within five years.

Compute the dividends over the next five years.

Compute the value of this stock in five years.

Calculate the present value of these cash flows using an 11 percent discount rate.

Pear co.’s income statement for the year ended december 31, as prepared by pear’s controller, reported income before taxes of $125,000. the auditor questioned the following amounts that had been included in income before taxes: equity in earnings of cinn co. $ 40,000 dividends received from cinn 8,000 adjustments to profits of prior years for arithmetical errors in depreciation (35,000) pear owns 40% of cinn’s common stock, and no acquisition differentials are relevant. pear’s december 31 income statement should report income before taxes of