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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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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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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SHARE | | | | | | | | | EPS= | NET INCOME - PREFERRED DIVIDENDS | | | | AVE. NO. OF COMMON SHARES OUTSTANDING | | | | | | | | | NET INCOME | OUTSTANDING SHARES | | | 3‚637‚297‚943 | 2010 | 1‚053‚438‚818 | | | | 2009 | 1‚051‚458‚156 | | | | | | | EPS= | 3‚637‚297‚943 | | | | (1‚053‚438‚818 + 1‚051‚458‚156)/2 | | | | | EPS is computed because earnings form the basis for dividend payments and future increases in value of shares | | | EPS=
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The firm’s stocks are undervalued. According to the dividends‚ growth rate‚ and discount rate the share price should be $43.36 which is $8.11 higher than the current market price. If the repurchase of $1Million worth of shares occurs‚ the company’s Return on Equity would increase. This would happen since there is less shareholder’s equity in the company due to the lower amount of shares outstanding. Currently the company’s Return on Equity is better than Standard Auto and Allied Motors but worse
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option available. K(cost of Equity)=RF+Beta(RM-RF) 5.870-5.39+0.8(6-5.39) Therefore the cost of equity is 5.870% For the dividend discount model the rate of growth is zero. Although (exhibit4) states that the value line forecast of dividend growth from 98-00 to ’04-’06 is 5.50% the total dividend paid in 1997 was 0.40 cents‚ but from 1998 to 2000 the dividend has been constant at 0.48
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with the same expected dividend and growth rates must alsohave the same stockprice.c. It is appropriate to use the constant growth model to estimate a stock ’svalue even if itsgrowth rate is never expected to become constant.d. If a stock has a required rate of return rs = 12%‚ and if its dividend isexpected to grow at aconstant rate of 5%‚ this implies that the stock’s dividend yield is also 5%.e. The price of a stock is the present value of all expected future dividends‚discounted at thedividend
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preferred and common stock valuation. 8-1 How does a right’s offering protect a firm’s stockholders against the dilution of ownership? 8-2 What is the purpose of a call feature in a preferred stock issued? 8-3 Over the past 5 years‚ the dividends of the Dave Corporation have grown from RM0.70 per share to the current level RM1.30 per share (D0). This growth rate is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. What is the value of a share of Dave Corporation common stock to an investor
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