The following example emphasises the importance of long-term cash flows in
determining the price of equity. Assume a firm earns 7% real return on its capital and
pays a 4% dividend, using the remainder to buy back shares or reinvest for the future.
Assume that investors also demand a 7% real rate of return on the stock. This will
mean that the real dividend per share is expected to grow at 3% per year . (why?)These
assumptions are very close to the long-run historical data on stocks (Siegel, 2002).
In the above situation, it takes investors nearly 20 years to receive just one-half of
the present value of future dividends. The duration of this asset, which is the timeweighted
average of all future cash payouts, is nearly 27 years.(这里的20 years和27 years怎么计算出来的?)
Even over the entire duration of 27 years, less than two-thirds of the total present value is realised from
cash flows.
[此贴子已经被作者于2008-9-3 19:11:44编辑过]


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