Estimate the growth rate for the firm using historical dividend information or roe and dividend payout ratio (Provide details on your calculation.

 Estimate the growth rate for the firm using historical dividend information or roe and dividend payout ratio (Provide details on your calculation. Common practice is to estimate industry growth; for multi period DDM, you have to estimate the short run growth for the future five years and the long run growth from year 6 to infinity).

My company is microsoft, I want to calculate from 2012-2017. Thanks