• Locate ten organizations that currently pay a common stock cash dividend. Go to the Finance Web link provided in the Webliography, enter the ticker symbol of an S&P 500 company in the quote box, and see whether it indicates that the company pays a dividend.
• Calculate the organizations' cost of equity using the dividend yield plus growth rate approach and the security market line (SML) model approach.
• For each organization, show how the cost of equity differs based on the two approaches.