Phillips Co.currently pays no dividend.The company is anticipating dividends of $.02,$.05,$.10,$.20,and $.30 over the next 5 years,respectively.After that,the company anticipates increasing the dividend by 3.5 percent annually.One common step in computing the value of this stock today is to compute the value of:

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The correct step involves computing the present value of dividends, which is often denoted as PV(Dividends). The notation "P₅" is a placeholder for this concept, indicating the present value of a series of cash flows (dividends in this case). This is a fundamental step in dividend discount models (DDM) for valuing stocks, where future dividends are projected and then discounted back to their present value to estimate the stock's intrinsic value.