1. Comet Pasta Company stock currenly sells for $137.50 per share. The Company JUST PAID a dividend and that dividend is not expected to grow at all for the next two years, and then it will grow at a constant rate of 10 percent thereafter. What was the amount of the dividend that was just paid if the required rate of return on the stock is 20 percent?
2. Gangland Water Guns Company is expected to pay a dividend of $2.10 one year from today. If the firm's growth in dividends is expected to remain at a flat 3 percent forever, then what is the cost of equity capital (in percent) for Gangland if the price of its common shares is currently $17.50?