Suppose you expect Longs Drug Stores to pay an annual dividend of $2 per share in the coming year and to trade $40 per share at the end of the year. If investments with equivalent risk to Longs' stock have an expected return of 6%, what is the most you would pay today for Longs' stock

$39.62

Explanation:

Calculation to determine what is the most you would pay today for Longs' stock

Using this formula

P0=Div1+P1/1+rE

Let plug in the formula

P0=$2+$40/(1+.06)

P0=$42/1.06

P0=$39.62

Therefore the most you would pay today for Longs' stock is $39.62

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two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.