Suppose that a firm always announces a yearly dividend at the end of the first quarter of the year, but then pays the dividendout as four equal quarterly payments. If the next such "annual" dividend hasbeen announced as $6, it is exactly one quarter until the first quarterly dividend from that $6, the effective annual required rate of return on the company's stockis 12percent, and all future "annual" dividends are expected to grow at 4 percent per year indefinitely,how much will this stock be worth?

Since dividends come quarterly, first convert the 12 percent into an effective quarterly rate, then EAR: