Answer:
Arithmetic Growth rate is about 19.89%
Geometric Growth rate is about 23.44%
Explanation:
Dividend Arithmetic Growth rate is calculated as follows
Step 1:
Find the growth rate of each year
Step 2:
Take its sum
Step 3:
Make an average by dividing the sum of all growths by Number of years in growth.
Dividend Arithmetic Growth rate is calculated as follows
Step 1:
Find the growth rate of each year
Step 2:
Take sum of all positive growth rates because geometric mean does not include the negative values.
Step 3: Multiply every growth and take the square root of the resultant product of these growths.
A MS Excel File is attached for the working. please find it.