Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. (APAM) Dividends

APAM Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

For dividend yielding stocks, the Dividend Discount Model (DDM) is a common valuation tool; it attempts to extrapolate a fair share price based primarily on the dividend the stock provides relative to a number of other quantiative aspects of its business. As for APAM, the DDM model, as implemented by StockNews, implies a positive return of 76.44% relative to its current price. To help understand and contextualize the model's evaluation of APAM, investors may wish to consider are:

• In comparison to stocks we observe that provide shareholders with a dividend, APAM offers a dividend yield in the top 2.09% of stocks in our set.
• Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc's market cap of $3 billion US dollars puts it in the mid-sized market cap class; here, it has a lower equity discount rate than 2.9% of stocks.
• Beta, which compares volatilty of an individual stock to that of the S&P 500, is lower for Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc than it is for just 1.56% of other dividend issuers in the Financial Services sector.

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