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Cache Creek Manufacturing Company Is Expected to Pay a Dividend

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Cache Creek Manufacturing Company is expected to pay a dividend of $4.20 in the upcoming year. Dividends are expected to grow at the rate of 8% per year. The risk-free rate of return is 4% and the expected return on the market portfolio is 14%. Investors use the CAPM to compute the market capitalisation rate on the shares, and the constant growth DDM to determine the intrinsic value of the shares. The shares are trading in the market today at $84.00. Using the constant growth DDM and the CAPM, the beta of the shares is ________.


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Return On Investment

A metric for assessing how well an investment is doing by comparing the net profit to the investment's initial cost.

Direct Expenses

Expenses directly linked to the manufacturing of particular products or services.

Sales

Sales involve the exchange of a product or service for money or its equivalent, constituting a fundamental activity of commercial enterprises to generate revenue.

Operating Departments

These are divisions within a business that are directly involved in carrying out the operations central to the business's purpose.

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