The common stock of Princeton Corporation currently sells for $65.20 per share. Securities analysts feel that most stock market investors expect Princetons future dividends to grow by a fairly constant 1.9% per year into the distant future, such that they can justify using the constant dividend growth model in their analysis. Based on this approach (also called the discounted cash flow technique), what is the estimate of the firms annual percentage cost of common equity (ke) financing if the per-share dividend expected for the coming year (D1) is $4.16?

• A. 8.40%
• B. 6.38%
• C. 7.90%
• D. 6.50%
• E. 8.28%