1. Nick's Marine Company (NMC) currently has a stock price per share of $38. If NMC's cost of equity capital (the discount rate for equity) is 15.2% and capital gains rate (gain/loss in prices relative to today's price) for the next year is expected to be 11.4%, the dividend in the upcoming year (t = 1) should be?
2. Electricity for All (EFA) is preparing for their Initial Public Equity Offering (IPO). Being in a highly regulated industry, and with no plans for expanding, EFA plans to payout all of its earnings as dividends that are expected to the be same. If the expected rate of return on its equity is 8% and a fair IPO price is $63 per share, what is EFA's dividend per share?