Q4.1 Choose a publicly traded company that has been listed on a major exchange or in the over- the-counter market for at least five years. Use any data source of your choice to find the annual cash dividend, if any, paid by the company in each of the past five calendar years. Also find the closing price of the stock at the end of each of the preceding six years.

a. Calculate the return for each of the five 1-year periods.

b. Graph the returns on a set of year (x-axis)-return (y-axis) axes.

c. On the basis of the graph in part

b, estimate the return for the coming year, and explain your answer.