You purchase a share of The Ludwig Corporation stock for $21.40. You expect it to pay dividends of $1.07, $1.1449, and $1.2250 in Years 1, 2, and 3, respectively, and you expect to sell it at the price of $26.22 at the end of three years.
A. Compute the growth rate in dividends.
B. Compute the expected dividend yield .
C. Supposing the computed growth rate is expected to continue, you can add the dividend yield to the expected growth rate to get the expected total rate of return. What is the stock's expected total rate of return?