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During the few previous years, Company J has been controlled with the aid of high price of capital to make investments. Recently, it is observed that, capital costs have been deteriorating and firm has decided to notice severely at a primary expansion program suggested by marketing and advertising department. For this purpose, the major task for the company is to estimate its cost of capital.
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To discuss: The way Person X use the information to anticipate future growth rate in dividends and determine the growth rate he gets and whether he is consistent with earlier growth rate of 5.8%.
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To discuss: Whether dividend growth model is applied if growth rate was not constant.
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