Generally speaking, the stock market is driven by supply and demand, much like any market. When a stock is sold, a buyer and seller exchange money for share ownership. The price for which the stock is purchased becomes the new market price. When a second share is sold, this price becomes the newest market price, etc….
Month: February 2017
How Do I Calculate Stock Value Using the Gordon Grown Model in Excel?
The Gordon Growth Model, or the dividend discount model (DDM), is a model used to calculate the intrinsic value of a stock based on the present value of future dividends that grow at a constant rate. The model assumes a company exists forever and pays dividends that increase at a constant rate. To estimate the value of a…
Digging Into the Dividend Discount Model
It’s time to dust off one of the oldest, most conservative methods of valuing stocks: the dividend discount model (DDM). It’s one of the basic applications of a financial theory that students in any introductory finance class must learn. Unfortunately, the theory is the easy part. The model requires loads of assumptions about companies’ dividend payments and growth patterns,…
How does the dividend discount method (DDM) work?
Investors can use the dividend discount model (DDM) for stocks that have just been issued or that have traded on the secondary market for years. There are two circumstances when DDM is practically inapplicable: when the stock does not issue dividends, and when the stock has a very high growth rate. The DDM is very similar to the…
What Does the Gordon Growth Model Tell You?
The Gordon Growth Model values a company’s stock using an assumption of constant growth in payments a company makes to its common equity shareholders. The three key inputs in the model are dividends per share, the growth rate in dividends per share, and the required rate of return. Dividends (D) per share represent the annual payments a…