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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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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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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Dividend Policy at Linear Technology Of the 16 companies on the SOX index‚ six paid dividends and Linear Technology is one of them started at the second quarter in 1993 which is 5.3 million in total. However‚ in the case‚ according to Coghlan‚ “The quarterly dividend was initially set at $0.05 per share. This amounted to $8.3 million‚ or 15% of FY 1994 earnings.” And their most recent dividend in 2002(cause in the exhibit2‚ there’s only threes quarter’s data in 2003‚ so that’s why I choose 2002
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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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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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NSE Research Initiative‚ Project Report no. 229 / 2009 Determinants and the Stability of Dividends in India: Application of Dynamic Partial Adjustment Equation using Extended Instrumental Variable Approach Dr. Manoj Subhash Kamat Dr. Manasvi Manoj Kamat Summary This paper improves on earlier research on stability and determinants of dividend policies by using a more advanced estimation methodology‚ a larger and more representative sample of panel data (PD)‚ and different proxies for a
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Dividend Policy FPL Group Inc Financial Management - I Group 11 Kinnari 20121026 | Krutika P 20121028 | Tushar 20121058 | Vijay 20121062 Agenda Case Background Decision Rationale Financial Analysis Reflection and conclusion Financial Management – I | Dividend Policy at FPL Group Inc. Case Backgound Synopsis Current Situation Case Description Recommendation Competitive Position Financial Management – I | Dividend Policy at FPL Group Inc. Background behind FPL’s decision in dividend
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DIVIDEND POLICY AT FPL GROUP‚ INC. (Case report) Subject: Dividend Policy at FPL Group‚ Inc. Problem: Should Kate Stark revise her current investment recommendation of “hold” on FPL’s stock to her clients? Options: 1) To change her “hold” recommendation to a “buy” recommendation 2) To change her “hold” recommendation to a “sell” recommendation 3) Remain unchanged; continue with the “hold” recommendation Recommendation: Table of Contents Overview 3 Analysis 4 Overview In 1994
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Inc. 2008 http://www.eurojournals.com/finance.htm Determinants of Dividend Payout Ratios-A Study of Indian Information Technology Sector Kanwal Anil Jaypee Business School‚ Noida‚ India Sujata Kapoor Institute of Management Studies‚ Ghaziabad‚ India Abstract Profitability has always been considered as a primary indicator of dividend payout ratio. There are numerous other factors other than profitability also that affect dividend decisions of an organization namely cash flows‚ corporate tax‚ sales
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