How might various providers of capital (shareholders and creditors) react if Gainesboro repurchased its shares? Should Gainesboro do so? Repurchasing shares or share buyback: – Open market repurchases (buy over time as other investors) – Tender offer (buy shares at a precise date) – Targeted repurchase (buy from major shareholder There are ways for shareholders to receive cash without being paid dividends. A firm can buy back some of its shares with the advantage being that most investors
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The Features of a Joint Stock Company When it comes to a joint stock company‚ one among the various types of business organizations which are instrumental towards the economic development in any country‚ the following are the various features: 1. Voluntary organization: A joint stock company is a voluntary organization or association of shareholders; 2. Legal person: It is a legal or an artificial person as a result of law. It has no physical existence; however‚ it functions as a separate
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Business Organization Joint – Stock Company An Entrepreneur or business owner will sell stock to investors‚ and in return‚ promise the investors a percentage of the company’s profits‚ based on how much stock they buy. We see this in larger businesses in the US‚ most notably during the market crash we experienced a couple years ago. Independent investors as well as other companies bought and shared stock with many of the big banking corporations‚ since the bands values began to drop‚ shareholders
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STOCK WARRANTS INTRODUCTION A stock warrant gives the right but not the obligation to purchase the stock of a company at a specific price and date. Some of the characteristics are: Whenever such a warrant is exercised‚ the shares that fulfil the obligation are not received from another investor but directly from the company. Firms generally issue stock warrants for raising money through equity and is usually offered at a lower price in comparison to stock options. There is no lock-in period
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Joint-Stock Company: A joint-stock company is a business entity which is owned by shareholders. Each shareholder owns the portion of the company in proportion to his or her ownership of the company’s shares (certificates of ownership). This allows for the unequal ownership of a business with some shareholders owning a larger proportion of a company than others. Shareholders are able to transfer their shares to others without any effects to the continued existence of the company. In modern corporate
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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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CHAPTER 14 DISTRIBUTIONS TO 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
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CHAPTER 14: DISTRIBUTIONS TO SHAREHOLDERS: DIVIDENDS AND SHARE REPURCHASES 1. The optimal distribution policy strikes that balance between current dividends and capital gains that maximizes the firm’s stock price. a. True b. False ANSWER: True 2. Other things held constant‚ the higher a firm’s target payout ratio‚ the higher its expected growth rate should be. a. True b. False ANSWER: False RATIONALE: The higher the payout ratio‚ the less of its earnings the firm reinvests in the business
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Introduction The Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company is the largest natural gas distributor in Bangladesh. This section includes a brief description of the company‚ the industry structure in which it belongs‚ financing and dividend policy and the industry analysis. ------------------------------------------------- 1.1Company Description Corporate Information Name of the Company | : Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited (TGTDCL) | Date of Incorporation | : November
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A stock market is a market for the trading of company stock‚ and derivatives of same; both of these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately. Contents [hide] [ The term ’the stock market ’ is a concept for the mechanism that enables the trading of company stocks (collective shares)‚ other securities‚ and derivatives. Bonds are still traditionally traded in an informal‚ over-the-counter market known as the bond market. Commodities are traded in commodities
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