Clinton's preferred stock pays a dividend of $1.00 per quarter. If the price of the stock is $50.00, what is its EFFECTIVE annual (not nominal) rate of return?

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The quarterly dividend is $1.00, so the annual dividend is $4.00. The nominal annual rate of return is $4.00 / $50.00 = 8.00%. To find the effective annual rate, we use the formula for effective annual rate: (1 + nominal rate/number of periods)^(number of periods) - 1. Here, it is (1 + 0.08/4)^4 - 1 = 8.24%.

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