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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Introduction In this 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
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Contents Introduction 2 Theories and Determinants of Dividend Policy (Section 1) 2 Tax and Clienteles Theory 2 Free cash flow and the Agency Theory 3 Growth and The Lifecycle theory 4 Firm size 5 Information Asymmetry and Signaling theory 5 Risk and the Bird in hand theory 7 Profitability 8 Conclusion 9 Analysis of Apple and Dell Dividend Policy (Section 2) 9 Apple Inc. 9 Dell Inc. 11 Conclusion 13 Reference 14 Introduction In a private firm‚ after a period of business activity the owner of the
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Fauzias Mat Nor DIVIDEND POLICY AND STOCK REPURCHASES TEAM MEMBERS: NO. NAME I.C. NO. STUDENT NO. 1. Mohd Hatta Ahmad 641225-05-5601 ZP00664 2. Azizul Azrin Mahmor 761117-04-5189 ZP00580 3. Hazri Zan Abu Kassim ZP00398 4. Fazriman Fazli Othman ZP00665 Date: 10.10.11 INTRODUCTION Dividends and stock repurchases are firm’s payout policy where a firm pay cash to shareholders Dividend Policy Dividend policy is a decision to pay out earnings versus retaining them. Dividend policy issues include
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27 (2003) 1297–1321 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
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AN EXAMPLE OF DIVIDEND POLICY IRRELEVANCE An example provides insight into the dividend irrelevance proposition. Suppose that now is time 0‚ and one year from now is time 1. Carter Company just paid its time 0 dividend (assume dividends are paid once per year)‚ and plans to publicly announce its dividend policy for the next year. It is considering the following two policies (all dollar amounts in $millions). Policy I: At time 1‚ dividends = $110‚ new share sales = 0‚ treasury stock purchases
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INTRODUCTION That report is a detailed review of dividend policy and whether or not could affect the market value of the company. When companies make profits‚ managers have to decide either to reinvest those profits for the good of company or either they could pay out the owners (shareholders) of the firm in dividends. Once they decide to pay dividends they may possibly establish a permanent dividend policy‚ which is the set of guidelines a company uses in order to decide how much of its profits
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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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INCOME TAXES AND DIVIDEND POLICY The income taxes of stockholders should affect the dividend policy of a firm. To help you understand these tax implications‚ we shall first examine the importance of tax deferral and then show the impact of having two different tax rates‚ one for ordinary income and one for capital gains. Rational stockholders should value a stock based on the after-tax returns they expect to receive from owning it. The tax status of the return depends on the form in which it is
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Linear Model of Policy Process and its critics Student: Ninia Machavariani Instructor: Dr. Stephen L. Harris Variously called the linear‚ but also known as rational model‚ this model is the most widely-held in the processes where policy is made. It outlines policy-making as a problem solving process which is rational‚ balanced‚ objective and analytical. In the model‚ decisions are made in a series of sequential phases‚ starting with the identification of a problem or issue‚ and
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