RIM’s dividend policy is no dividend. The company has not paid any dividend since they completed its initial public offering during fiscal 1998. Motorola has never paid dividend. Apple has not paid dividend since 1996. Nokia and HTC paid dividend regularly maybe because they are not North American company. Basically high technology companies in their growth stage typically have not paid a dividend because the thinking is that they can re-invest their earnings to boost the growth of the company
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www.elsevier.com/locate/econbase Corporate governance‚ dividend payout policy‚ and the interrelation between dividends‚ R&D‚ and capital investment Klaus Gugler * Department of Economics‚ University of Vienna‚ WP No. 9803‚ Br€nnerstrasse 72‚ 1210 Vienna‚ Austria u Received 12 October 2000; accepted 5 November 2001 Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between dividends and the ownership and control structure of the firm. For a panel of Austrian firms over the 1991/99
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there since the much criticized theory of Malthus in 18th century. Economist focused on the size of population and the growth of nation‚ but the composition of population age structure was not considered until the study of Coale and Hoover (1958)‚ but in recent years‚ demographers Bloom et al have studied the type of composition of age structure of population and its effect on economic growth and the concept of “demographic dividend” emerged. Demographic dividend is defined as a rise in the rate
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111 Midterm Exam 10/24/2011 Essay Question 2: Analyze the role joint-stock companies had in settling America. Joint-stock companies charted by King James I funded the English colonial enterprises. Investors bought shares in the company‚ and at the end of a specified period received their investment back plus a percentage of the profits of the company. In April of 1606‚ the king issued a charter to the Virginia Company of London to create a colony in America. In December 1606‚ three ships
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of bank dividend policy: revisited John Theis and Amitabh S. Dutta D. Abbott Turner College of Business‚ Columbus State University‚ Columbus‚ Georgia‚ USA Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dickens et al. model of bank holding company dividend policy. They identified five explanatory factors in a sample of bank holding companies (BHCs). Banking companies typically pay larger dividends and more often than industrial firms. Investors often look at the dividends as being
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December 1977) pp 79-84. Financial Statements and Inflation Accounting - A New Approach‚ The Chartered Secretary - The Journal 4 of Institute of Companies Secretaries of India‚ Delhi‚ Vol VIII (July 1978) Capital Budgeting Decision: A case for Multiple Objective some Empirical Observations‚ The Chartered 5 Accountant‚Vol. XXVII‚ No.7 (January 1979) pp.537-44. Capital Budgeting Decision : Identification of Multiple Objectives: Some Empirical Evidence‚ Indian 6 Journal of Accounting‚ Vol IX‚ (June & December
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THE SETTING OF DIVIDEND POLICY Dividend policy is likely to be set in the form of a goal rather than a rigid rule‚ even though a definite policy has the advantage of providing the investor‚ or potential investor‚ a clear basis for choice. Investors knowing the dividend policy of the alternative companies can choose the type of company that best fits their individual investment goals. This is desirable‚ because stockholders differ in the extent to which they prefer dividends rather than opportunities
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Subject: Dividend Policy at FPL Group‚ Inc. Problem: Should FPL cut dividend? And should Stark revise her investment recommendation? Options: 1) Keep dividend per share growth at 1.65% 2) Dividend per share grows at 1% 3) Keep dividend per share constant at $2.46 4) Cut dividend by 30% and repurchase 10 million shares each year after the cut Recommendations: We recommend FPL to cut dividend by 30% in order to free up more cash to facilitate its growth and fight the upcoming competitions
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Coca-Cola Dividend Policy The definition of dividend is as follows: A dividend is the distribution or sharing of parts of profits to a company ’s shareholders. Now the question is why do companies pay dividends to it s shareholders? Because it’s the shareholders that are the real owners of the corporation and one would not own a piece of anything unless it would make money for them. So in turn a company wants to pay dividends to keep the shareholders happy and show that they are being profitable
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Why Do Firms Pay Dividends? International Evidence on the Determinants of Dividend Policy* DAVID J. DENIS** Krannert School of Management Purdue University West Lafayette‚ IN 47907 djdenis@purdue.edu IGOR OSOBOV Georgia State University Department of Finance Atlanta‚ GA 30303 iosobov@gsu.edu May‚ 2007 We thank Yakov Amihud‚ Harry DeAngelo‚ Linda DeAngelo‚ Diane Denis‚ Jim Hsieh‚ Omesh Kini‚ Erik Lie‚ John McConnell‚ Lalitha Naveen‚ Raghu Rau‚ Steve Smith‚ Jeff Wurgler‚ an anonymous referee
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