SHAREHOLDERS: DIVIDENDS AND SHARE REPURCHASES (Difficulty: E = Easy‚ M = Medium‚ and T = Tough) Multiple Choice: Conceptual Easy: Dividends versus capital gains Answer: d Diff: E [i]. Myron Gordon and John Lintner believe that the required return on equity increases as the dividend payout ratio is decreased. Their argument is based on the assumption that a. Investors are indifferent between dividends and capital gains. b. Investors require that the dividend yield and
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The Dividend per share for 2013 and 2016 are given on Value Line. The dividend growth for the years in between is calculated as follows: |Dividend ‘13 |.14 | |Dividend ‘14 |.15 | |Dividend ‘15 |.17 | |Dividend ‘16 |.18 | .18 - .14 = .04; .04/3 = .0133 In order to calculate Value using the 2 stage Dividend Discount Model we must calculate the market capitalization rate
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either keep its dividend payout at $2.48 or increase it slightly. Today however‚ she saw a report from Merrill Lynch stating that they were downgrading FPL stock due to management’s concern that the dividend payout was too high given the increasing risks facing the industry. This report caused Stark to reconsider his previous “hold” rating and she questioned if she would need to issue an updated report. Our problem was to determine if FPL is likely to change their current dividend policy and how such
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An Appraisal of Dividend Policy and Capital Structure of Apex Tanneries Limited 1. Company Profile Apex tanneries has been setting standard in Bangladesh leather export industry since 1976.equiped with the state of the art Italian modern machinery and maintaining high quality strictness. Through the years its production has been progressively entailing a constant expansion of building and machinery .Annual production exceeds 23 million square meters and company sales turnover amount to
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International Journal of Business‚ Economics and Law‚ Vol. 1 ISSN 2289-1552 2012 DETERMINANTS OF DIVIDEND POLICY: THE CASE OF VIETNAM Nguyen Thi Xuan Trang Accounting Department Da Nang University of Economics 71 Ngu Hanh Son Street‚ Ngu Hanh Son District‚ Da Nang City‚ Vietnam Email: trangatax@gmail.com ‚ Tel: (+84) 0 914 745 649 ABSTRACT There were several researchers who investigated dividend policy in developed countries like the USA (Chang and Rhee‚ 1990)‚ the UK (Al-Najjar and Hussainey
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capitalization on the dividend rate. The study reveals that as per dividend irrelevance theory dividend policy has no influence on value of the firm for the reason of homemade dividend according to dividend relevance theory‚ value of the firm is influenced by dividend policy because of certainty‚ information content and clientele effect; liquidity‚ availability of worthwhile projects‚ availability of alternative funds‚ profitability‚ growth‚ leverage‚ reaction of market to dividend reduction‚ ownership
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Q2: Tunney Industries issued preferred stock at a price of $47.50 a share. The issue is expected to pay a constant annual dividend of $3.80 a share. What is the company’s cost of preferred stock‚ Kp? Q3: Javit & Son’s common stock is currently trading at $30 a share. The stock is expected to pay a dividend of $3.00 a share at the end of the year (D1=$3.00)‚ and dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5% a year. If the company were to issue external equity‚ it would incur a 10% floatation
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Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Inc. (USA) Online ISSN: 2249-4588 & Print ISSN: 0975-5853 Effect of Dividend Policy on Share Holder’s Wealth: “A Study of Sugar Industry in Pakistan” By Mohammad Salman Sarwar University of Gujrat‚ Pakistan Abstract - The present paper focuses on the impact of dividend policy on shareholder’s wealth in sugar industries of Pakistan. For this study we have selected the sample of 33 listed companies of sugar industry
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of the Bush plan is to eliminate the taxes investors pay on dividend income. Currently‚ any money an investor receives when a stock she owns pays a dividend to its investors is added to her total income at tax time. So dividend income is treated the same way‚ and is taxed at the same rate‚ as income from working. If the Bush plan becomes law‚ dividend income will no longer be added to an investor’s total income. As a result the dividends become exempt from taxation. The exact details of the plan are
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the light of this that dividend decision ought to be evaluated with the aim of maximizing the firm to its shareholder through market price of the share and the current dividend. Rey holds (2001) noted that despite the common assertion that higher wealth gains to shareholders. Would result from the use of repurchases instead of dividends‚ firms continue to increases the size of dividends annually and not increases repurchase at an even faster rate. This indicates that dividend remain a mystery. The
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