DIVIDEND POLICY AND SHAREHOLDERS WEALTH MAXIMIZATION: A STUDY OF SELECTED QUOTED FIRMS ON THE NIGERIA STOCK EXCHANGE (NSE) BY ABDULLAHI BASHIR MUHAMMED DEPARTMENT OF BANKING AND FINANCE FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF Abuja PHONE NO: 08065727548‚ E-MAIL: Bash7th@yahoo.com ISMAILA DADDY ABUBAKAR DEPARTMENT OFECONOMICS UNIVERSITY OFABUJA PHONE NO: 08030596520 E-MAIL: abu4rim@yahoo.com AHMED TIJANI ABDULMAJEED DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY
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VALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF GOODWILL IN A BUSINESS. INTRODUCTION Goodwill is an intangible element connected with the going concern which include personality‚ reputation‚ the company name‚ convenient and favourable location of the business‚ quality of merchandise‚ efficient management‚ supply and demand for a choice product‚ affordable prices‚ efficient labour relations with employees‚ true and fair view and finally courteous methods of treating customers. Goodwill is often shown on the accounting
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Best Buy’s Valuation Best Buy Co.‚Inc. (BBY) is one of the leading retail stores in the United States. It was founded in 1966‚ and its headquarter is located in Richfield‚ Minnesota. It operates in both domestic and international segments (Canada & Mexico). Best Buy is a multinational specialty retailer that includes six main revenue categories: 32% consumer electronic‚ 46% computing and mobile phones‚ 8% entertainment‚ 8% appliances‚ 5% services‚ and 1% others. Best Buy has maintained a steady growth
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Global Economic There is increasing confidence that the world economy is enjoying a classic cyclical recovery. Global economy is on a recovery path aided largely by the quick end to the Iraqi war‚ which generated positive outlook among markets and built up business and consumer confidence. GDP growth rate was 0.2% in the first quarter of 2003 in UK‚ growth rate for the second and third quarter went up to 0.6%‚ pointing to a growth rate of 2.0% end 2003. Unemployment rate has been decreasing
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Dividend Policy of Indian Corporate Firms: An Analysis of Trends and Determinants Dr. Y. Subba Reddy1 The present study examines the dividend behavior of Indian corporate firms over the period 1990 – 2001 and attempts to explain the observed behavior with the help of trade-off theory‚ and signaling hypothesis. Analysis of dividend trends for a large sample of stocks traded on the NSE and BSE indicate that the percentage of companies paying dividends has declined from 60.5 percent in 1990 to 32.1
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CHAPTER 4 BONDS ANND THEIR VALUATION Bond value--semiannual payment 1. You intend to purchase a 10-year‚ $1‚000 face value bond that pays interest of $60 every 6 months. If your nominal annual required rate of return is 10 percent with semiannual compounding‚ how much should you be willing to pay for this bond? N = 20 I/Y = 5 PV = -1124.62 PMT = 60 FV = 1000 Bond value--semiannual payment 2. Assume that you wish to purchase a 20-year bond that has a maturity value of $1‚000 and makes semiannual
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Calculate Preferred Dividends Preferred stock (or preference shares) is a special class of stock that pays a fixed dividend set at the time of issuance. Also‚ preferred dividends must be paid before common stock dividends. To calculate the dividends for preferred stocks‚ you need to multiply the par value of the shares by the dividend percentage. Example 1: If the dividend percentage is 8 percent and the preferred stock was issued at $20 per share‚ then the annual dividend is: 8% * $20 = $1.60
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CORPORATE DIVIDEND PRACTICE One consideration is the desire to have a relatively stable dividend; the second is the desire to pay out‚ in the long run‚ a given fraction of earnings. This fraction is usually referred to as the payout target. These objectives may be conflicting. Earnings tend to fluctuate substantially from year to year. If a corporation routinely paid out a given fraction of those earnings as dividends‚ then the dividend itself would tend to fluctuate drastically from year to year
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we know how to value options on a stock paying a dividend yield‚ we know how to value options on stock indices and currencies." Explain this statement. A stock index is similar to a stock paying a dividend yield‚ only if the dividend yield is the dividend yield of the index. Currencies are similar to a stock paying a dividend yield‚ the dividend yield being the foreign risk-free interest rate. 15.3) A stock index is currently 300‚ the dividend yield on the index is 3% per annum‚ and the risk-free
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(GMTC). The questions posed to you are: - 1. In theory‚ to fund an increased dividend payout or a stock buyback‚ a firm might invest less‚ borrow more‚ or issue more stock. Which of those three elements is Gainesboro’s management willing to vary‚ and which elements remain fixed as a matter of the company’s policy? 2. What happens to Gainesboro’s financing need and unused debt capacity if: a. no dividends are paid? b. a 20% payout is pursued? c. a 40% payout is pursued?
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