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Defenestration Industries plans to pay a $4.00 dividend this year and you expect that the firm's earnings are on track to grow at 5% per year for the foreseeable future.Defenestration's equity cost of capital is 13%.
-Suppose that Defenestration decides to pay a dividend of only $2 per share this year and use the remaining $2 per share to repurchase stock.If Defenestration's payout rate remains constant,then Defenestration's stock price is closest to:

• A)$50.00.
• B)$22.25.
• C)$32.30.
• D)$30.75.

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