APAM Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

A technique commonly used by dividend investors to value dividend-issuing stocks is the Dividend Discount Model (DDM), which seeks to determine a fair share price based on the dividend provided by the company relative to a number of other company-specific factors. As for APAM, the DDM model, as implemented by StockNews, implies a positive return of 35.78% relative to its current price. Digging deeper, the aspects of Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:

• As for its position relative to other Financial Services stocks that issue dividends, APAM provides shareholders with a dividend yield greater than 88.67% such stocks.
• Beta is a measure of how volatile a stock is relative to the S&P 500; for APAM, its beta is lower than merely 20.98% of stocks in the small-sized revenue class.
• Based on dividend growth rate, APAM boasts a higher growth rate in terms of its annual cash distributed to its owners than 8.38% of the dividend issuers in our set.

APAM Dividends vs. Peers