When Estimating the Cost of Equity by Use of the Dividend

question 45

True/False

When estimating the cost of equity by use of the dividend growth method, the single biggest potential problem is to determine the growth rate that investors use when they estimate a stock's expected future rate of return.This problem leaves us unsure of the true value of r_s.

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