Questions Chapter 16 2. Dividend policy – Here are several “facts” about typical corporate dividend policies. Which are true and which are false? a. Companies decided each year’s dividend by looking at their capital expenditure requirements and then distributing whatever cash is left over. False. The dividend depends on past dividends and current and forecasted earnings. b. Managers and investors seem more concerned with dividend changes than with dividend levels. True. Dividend changes convey information
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Technology on dividend policy. The report analyzed the impact of changing future dividend policy on the value of the company‚ based on its historical performance‚ financial history and market trends. Linear Technology is a large-scale company which focus on the analog segments within semiconductor industry. It went public in 1986 and announced its dividend policy on 1992. Nowadays‚ under the market environment where dividends are unwilling to be paid‚ Linear still insisted its dividend commitment
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consistently paid an 8p-per-share dividend to ordinary shareholders since 2002. EMI’s recent performance‚ Stewart questioned whether EMI should continue to maintain what would represent a combined GBP 63 million annual dividend payment. Stewart recognized that EMI faced considerable threat of takeover. It seemed that boosting EMI’s share price was imperative‚ if Emi wanted to maintain its independence. The Dividend Decision The board already declared an interim dividend of 2p per share in November
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CHAPTER 14 DIVIDENDS AND DIVIDEND POLICY Solutions to Questions and Problems Basic NOTE: All end-of-chapter problems were solved using a spreadsheet. Many problems require multiple steps. Due to space and readability constraints‚ when these intermediate steps are included in this solutions manual‚ rounding may appear to have occurred. However‚ the final answer for each problem is found without rounding during any step in the problem. 1. With no taxes we would expect the stock price to drop by exactly
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recommendation on the restructuring of the dividend payout policy for Gainesboro Machine Tools Corporation. In the past few years the company has experienced a decrease in sales due to increased competition. With the recent development of the Artificial Workforce‚ the company is looking at making a positive turnaround. With the soon to come global expansion and the forecasted growth in sales brought by new innovations of the Artificial Workforce‚ the direction of the dividend policy needs to be determined. When
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and the other aspects associated with its capital structure and dividend policy. The organisation has been trying to change its financial structure to a management-driven one. This is evident from the reduction in the share capital of the organisation and the rise of debt capital‚ which it has been using efficiently to reduce its tax burden and control the overall cost of capital of the firm. The organisation has been paying dividends at a higher rate compared to its rivals which shows the sound financial
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quarterly dividend of $0.05/share and use any additional funds to repurchase shares to increase shareholder value. This kept their payout ratio to around 15% until about 2002 where this dividend payout moved the ratio to around 25% to 30%. Currently Linear is sitting on a large amount of cash ($1.5b) that they are investing in very low return securities. They currently don’t have any investment opportunities available so they are considering using this money to payout a one time dividend. 2. The
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ISSUES Warren Buffet invoked the substance-over-form concept to justify accounting for the GEICO and General Foods transactions as dividends distributions rather than sales of stock. Do you agree with Buffet that the substance of each of the proportionate redemptions was a dividend and not a sale of stock? In deciding how to account for an unusual or unique transaction for financial reporting purposes‚ should one consider the tax treatment applied to the transaction? Did Peat Marwick have a right
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mid-September 2005‚ Ashley Swenson‚ chief financial officer (CFO) of Gainesboro Machine Tools Corporation‚ paced the floor of her Minnesota office. She needed to submit a recommendation to Gainesboro’s board of directors regarding the company’s dividend policy‚ which had been the subject of an ongoing debate among the firm’s senior managers. Compounding her problem was the uncertainty surrounding the recent impact of Hurricane Katrina‚ which had caused untold destruction across the southeastern
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valued the stock at $162 a share‚ while AT&T estimated its value at $100 a share. The difference resulted in a whopping $1.6 billion. As this example demonstrates‚ stock valuation seems to be both art and science. In this cyber-problem‚ use the dividend growth model’s constant growth assumptions to value Emerson’s stock. In addition‚ you will apply the concepts of risk and return by estimating the stock’s required return from the CAPM model. In order to arrive at a value for Emerson Electric‚ you
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