Johnson Enterprises’s stock is currently selling for $25.67 per share, and the firm expects its per-share dividend to be $2.35 in one year. Analysts project the firm’s growth rate to be constant at 5.72%. Estimating the cost of equity using the discounted cash flow (or dividend growth) approach, what is Johnson’s cost of internal equity?

a. 14.87%
b. 14.13%
c. 20.07%
d. 15.61%