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. Regarding Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc, the dividend discount model StockNews created for the company implies a positive return of 22.06%. Digging deeper, the aspects of Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:

• Relative to all dividend yielding stocks in our set, Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc's dividend yield of 6.68% is in the top 9.11%.
• APAM's market cap of approximately $4 billion makes it a mid-sized market cap company; out of dividend issuers in this group, the investment opportunity based on the difference between its current share price and its forecasted DDM value is greater than 79.15% of them.
• In terms of who is growing the amount of dividends they return to shareholders, APAM boasts a higher growth rate in terms of its annual cash distributed to its owners than merely 10.88% of the dividend issuers in our set.

APAM Dividends vs. Peers