California Clinics, an investor-owned chain of ambulatory care clinics, just paid a dividend of $2 per share. The firm's dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5 percent per year, and investors require a 15 percent rate of return on the stock.
Suppose the riskiness of the stock decreases, which causes the required rate of return to fall to 13 percent. Under these conditions, what is the stock’s value?