IMPACT OF DIVIDEND POLICY ON COMPANIES’ PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM PUBLIC LISTED COMPANIES IN MALAYSIA 1.0 INTRODUCTION Dividend policy is the regulations and guidelines that a company uses to decide to make dividend payments to shareholders. Dividends are payments made to stockholders from a firm’s earnings‚ whether those earnings were generated in the current period or in previous periods. When a company makes a profit‚ they must decide on what to do with those profits. They could continue to
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The Impact of Dividend Policy on Shareholders’ Wealth of Selected Major Pharmaceutical Units in India CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS OF DIVIDEND PAY OUT TREND 4.1 Introduction Dividend policy has been a concern of significance in financial literature since inception of Joint Stock Companies. Dividends are commonly defined as the distribution of earnings (past or present) in real assets among the shareholders of the firm in proportion to their ownership.xxxix Dividend policy connotes to the payout policy
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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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Equity Valuation Lecture Map Definitions of Value Book value‚ Liquidation value‚ Intrinsic value‚ Market value Dividend discount models Constant-growth Multi-stage growth Value Metrics and Determinants of Value Current earnings and growth P/E Lesmond 1 Book Value of Equity The firm’s equity value‚ or stock value‚ is stated right on the firm’s books This is NOT the market value of equity Book value per share of Equity is the value of common equity on the books‚ divided
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The Dividend per share for 2013 and 2016 are given on Value Line. The dividend growth for the years in between is calculated as follows: |Dividend ‘13 |.14 | |Dividend ‘14 |.15 | |Dividend ‘15 |.17 | |Dividend ‘16 |.18 | .18 - .14 = .04; .04/3 = .0133 In order to calculate Value using the 2 stage Dividend Discount Model we must calculate the market capitalization rate
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how much a company should pay its stockholders‚ as dividend is one that has been of concern to managers for a long time. The optimal dividend policy of a firm may be defined as the one that increases shareholders wealth by the greatest amount. It is therefore necessary‚ to understand the nature of the relationship between dividend and value of the firm. It is in the light of this that the study examines the possible effects of a firm’s dividend policy on the market price of its common stock with
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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 require that the dividend yield and
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International Journal of Business‚ Economics and Law‚ Vol. 1 ISSN 2289-1552 2012 DETERMINANTS OF DIVIDEND POLICY: THE CASE OF VIETNAM Nguyen Thi Xuan Trang Accounting Department Da Nang University of Economics 71 Ngu Hanh Son Street‚ Ngu Hanh Son District‚ Da Nang City‚ Vietnam Email: trangatax@gmail.com ‚ Tel: (+84) 0 914 745 649 ABSTRACT There were several researchers who investigated dividend policy in developed countries like the USA (Chang and Rhee‚ 1990)‚ the UK (Al-Najjar and Hussainey
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statements about dividend policies is CORRECT? a. Modigliani and Miller argue that investors prefer dividends to capital gains because dividends are more certain than capital gains. They call this the ―bird-in-the hand‖ effect. b. One reason that companies tend to avoid stock repurchases is that dividend payments are taxed at a lower rate than gains on stock repurchases. c. One advantage of dividend reinvestment plans is that they allow shareholders to avoid paying taxes on the dividends that they
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needs solutions. As one of them‚ some scholars claim that citizens of affluent countries are responsible in reducing poverty in poor countries. The most notable person among this group is Thomas Pogge. He proposes program called “The Global Resources Dividend” (GRD)‚ which is supposed to eradicate poverty in the world. Pogge builds up the program on principle claiming that each individual has “inalienable stake in all limited natural resources” (2001‚ p. 61‚ p. 66). In other words‚ ideally all limited
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