Metallica Bearings, Inc., is a young start-up company. No dividends will be paid on the stock over the next seven years, because the firm needs to plow back its earnings to fuel growth. The company will then pay a dividend of $14.25 per share 8 years from today and will increase the dividend by 6.00 percent per year thereafter. Required: If the required return on this stock is 14.00 percent, what is the current share price?

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1