1. The past five monthly returns for PG Company are 1.65 percent, -2.3 percent, 4.65 percent, 4.2 percent, and 2.4 percent. What is the average monthly return?
2. Barbados Yacht Corporation (BYC) has been growing at a rate of 15% per year in recent years. This same growth rate is expected to last for another 2 years.
a. If D0 = $2.25, rs = 9%, and gconstant = 6%, what is BYC's stock worth today?
What is its expected dividend yield? What is its capital gains yield at this time?
b. Now assume that BYC's period of supernormal growth is to last for 5 years rather than 2 years.
How would this affect its price, dividend, yield, and capital gains yield?