You Expect That Bean Enterprises Will Have Earnings Per Share

question 31

Multiple Choice

You expect that Bean Enterprises will have earnings per share of $2 for the coming year.Bean plans to retain all of its earnings for the next three years.For the subsequent two years,the firm plans on retaining 50% of its earnings.It will then retain only 25% of its earnings from that point forward.Retained earnings will be invested in projects with an expected return of 20% per year.If Bean's equity cost of capital is 12%,then the price of a share of Bean's stock is closest to:

• A)$17.00.
• B)$10.75.
• C)$27.65.
• D)$43.50.

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of all values within a population, quantifying how much the values differ from the population mean.

Sample Size

The number of observations or replicates included in a statistical sample, essential for accurately estimating the population parameter.

T-Distributions

A family of probability distributions that arises when estimating the mean of a normally distributed population in situations where the sample size is small and population standard deviation is unknown.

Degrees Of Freedom

Degrees of freedom are the number of values in a final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary, often linked to the sample size.