Computing the value of stock price with discounting the future discounts.
A. A record collector has agreed to sell her entire collection to a historical museum in three years at a price of $100,000. The current risk-free rate is 7 percent.
At what price should she value her collection today?
B. Sopp Accounting Services has an outstanding issue of 1,000 shares preferred stock with a $100 par value, an 8 percent annual dividend, and 5,000 shares of common stock outstanding.
If the stock is cumulative and the board of directors has passed the preferred dividend for the last two years, how much must preferred stockholders be paid prior to paying dividends to common stockholders?