THE EFFECT OF DIVIDEND POLICY ON THE MARKET PRICE OF SHARES IN NIGERIA: CASE STUDY OF FIFTEEN QUOTED COMPANIES By Dr. J. J. Adefila Department of Accountancy‚ University of Maiduguri‚ Dr. J. A. Oladipo and J.O Adeoti‚ Both of the Department of Business Administration‚ University of Ilorin ABSTRACT The issue of how much a company should pay its stockholders‚ as dividend is one that has been of concern to managers for a long time. The optimal dividend policy of a firm may be defined as the best
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paper the impact of dividend policy of the companies on the firm’s share prices is analysed and different views in the context of the semi-strong form of the efficient market hypothesis are contrasted. The overview of the traditional and most recent empirical investigations of the stock market reaction to the dividend announcements is provided and different findings are discussed and compared. Three companies have been selected from the FTSE All share price index. These companies are Tesco‚ Burberry
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Dividend Policy Dividend policy Executive summary Once a company makes a profit‚ they must decide on what to do with those profits. They could continue to retain the profits within the company‚ or they could pay out the profits to the owners of the firm in the form of dividends. Once the company decides on whether to pay dividends‚ they may establish a somewhat permanent dividend policy‚ which may in turn affect investors and perceptions of the company in the financial
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help management must decide on the form of the dividend distribution‚ generally as cash dividends or via a share buyback. Various factors may be taken into consideration: where shareholders must pay tax on dividends‚ firms may elect to retain earnings or to perform a stock buyback‚ in both cases increasing the value of shares outstanding. Alternatively‚ some companies will pay "dividends" from stock rather than in cash. The purpose of an optimal dividend policy should be to maximize shareholders’
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Financial Management Unit 15 Unit 15 Structure 15.1 Introduction 15.2 Traditional Approach 15.3 Dividend Relevance Model 15.3.1 15.3.2 Walter Model Gordon’s Dividend Capitalization Model Dividend Decision 15.4 Dividend Irrelevance Theory: Miller and Modigliani Model 15.5 Stability of Dividends 15.6 Forms of Dividends 15.7 Stock Split 15.8 Summary Terminal Questions Answers to SAQs and TQs 15.1 Introduction Dividends are that portion of a firm’s net earnings paid to the shareholders
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Internship Report on Dividend Policy of Uttara Bank Limited Prepared to Md. Rizvy Ahmed Lecturer Faculty of Business Administration Eastern University Prepared by Md. Aminul IslamSarker ID: 082200122 Batch: 16th Major in Finance group Bachelor of Business Administration (Spring semester2013) Mail Address: aminulefg@yahoo.com Eastern University Acknowledgement My first and foremost gratitude goes to Mr. ShuvoMondal‚ my supervisor at Jatrabari Branch of Uttara
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its main competitors like ICICI Bank‚ Axis Bank and HDFC Bank. In this 18-month period‚ the price of the SBI share has risen from a modest Rs 800 to Rs 2‚400‚ thanks to the proposed merger of the seven associate banks with SBI. The huge jump in the share price has raised SBI’s market capitalization to Rs 1‚ 21‚064.79 crores (as on November 30‚ 2007). Bringing down the net NPA (non-performing asset) from 1.88 per cent in 2006 to 1.56 per cent in 2007‚ given an asset base of Rs 5‚ 66‚565.24 crores
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Capital Markets and Corporate Finance (Stream 1): FINC5001 Dr. Reuben Segara Finance Discipline School of Business University of Sydney 1 Dividend Policy 2 This Lecture PART I – Dividend Fundamentals • • • • What is Dividend Policy? Institutional Features of Dividends Types of Dividend Policies Trends in Dividend Policies PART 2 – Is There An Optimal Dividend Policy? • Dividend Policy is Irrelevant • Dividend Policy is Relevant PART 3 – Alternatives to Dividends • Share Buy-Backs
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accounting and finance) Simon S P Lee‚ The Chinese University of Hong Kong Dividend Policy Bank distributed a $6.30 dividend per share in 2008. If you purchased shares in Hang Seng Bank at $87 per share‚ the company’s dividend yield was 7.2% ($6.30/$87) which is much higher than the bank deposit rate. Dividend payout ratio is another important indicator: Dividend payout ratio = Dividend per share ÷ Earnings per share Dividend policy is the policy used by a company to decide how much it will
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IMPACT OF DIVIDEND POLICY ON COMPANIES’ PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM PUBLIC LISTED COMPANIES IN MALAYSIA 1.0 INTRODUCTION Dividend policy is the regulations and guidelines that a company uses to decide to make dividend payments to shareholders. Dividends are payments made to stockholders from a firm’s earnings‚ whether those earnings were generated in the current period or in previous periods. When a company makes a profit‚ they must decide on what to do with those profits. They could continue to
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