A5 8c 8. Mr. Toriop owns 5000 shares of stock in Yummy Corporation. The company has announced that it will pay a dividend of $5 per share in one year and then a liquidating dividend of $50 per share...

A5 8c

8. Mr. Toriop owns 5000 shares of stock in Yummy Corporation. The company has announced that it will pay a dividend of $5 per share in one year and then a liquidating dividend of $50 per share in two years. The required return on ABC stock is 10%.

c. Mr. Toriop wishes to have equal amount of dividend income for the next two years. How can he use homemade leverage on Yummy Corporation’s dividends to achieve this goal? Check that the present value of the cash flows will be the same as they are before the homemade leverage. (Hint: Dividends will be in the form of an annuity.)