The dividend growth model is a mathematical formula investors can use to determine a reasonable fair value for a company's stock based on its current dividend and its expected future dividend growth.

Dividend discount model (DDM) evaluates stock based on future dividends, using cost of capital and growth rate. Most common DDM, the Gordon Growth Model, calculates intrinsic stock value by ...

To do so we need only rearrange the dividend discount model formula to solve for growth rather than price. Let's use Wal-Mart (WMT) as an example: Share price of $67.44 Estimated dividend next ...

Calculating the dividend growth rate is necessary for using a dividend discount model for valuing stocks. A history of strong dividend growth could mean future dividend growth is likely ...

The dividend discount model (DDM ... appropriateness of this can change. The Growth-Stock Problem No DDM model, no matter how complex, is able to solve the problem of predicting the future ...

Additionally, these stocks have superior fundamentals that make dividend growth a quality and promising investment for the long term. These include a sustainable business model, a long track of ...

The model portfolio capitalizes on that theme via the WisdomTree Total Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: DTD) and the WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Fund (NasdaqGM: DGRW), among other domestic ...

What's more surprising, though, is that long-in-the-tooth telecoms and utilities aren't leading the growth ... the new dividend elites? As my colleague, Louis Basenese, points out D&I's most ...