May 18, 2004

What determines stock prices?

There are many theories and models, but we will consider a simple calculation of the expected value of the dividend stream under the assumption that the future dividends are known.

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This is an interesting insight, but let's dig a little deeper.

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We can apply this algebra to WalMart:

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Posted by bparke at May 18, 2004 10:24 PM