LAZ 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 LAZ, the DDM model, as implemented by StockNews, implies a positive return of 15.43% relative to its current price. Digging deeper, the aspects of Lazard Ltd's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:

• In comparison to stocks we observe that provide shareholders with a dividend, Lazard Ltd's dividend yield of 5.13% is in the top 17.1%.
• LAZ's growth rate in terms of the amount of dividends it returns to shareholders is greater than merely 21.37% of its fellow dividend stocks in the Financial Services sector.
• In comparison to other stocks in the mid-sized revenue class, where its estimated gain based on our dividend discount model price relative to its current share price is greater than 77.35% of companies in the same revenue class.

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