Metallica Bearings, Inc., is a young start-up company. No dividends will be paid on the stock over the next nine years because the firm needs to plow back its earnings to fuel growth. The company will pay a $14 per share dividend 10 years from today and will increase the dividend by 3.9 percent per year thereafter. If the required return on this stock is 12.5 percent, what is the current share price?

Future dividend

Years until first dividend

Dividend growth rate

Required return

14.00

10

3.9%

12.5%

Complete the following analysis. Do not hard code values in your calculations.

Stock price in 9 years

Stock price today