Brief Description of Verizon Company Verizon communications Inc is an American company that was established in June 2000 when bell Atlantic merged with GTE and the merger took 2 years to close. In 2004 it was added to the Dow Jones industrial average. In 2006 Verizon became the primary provider of advanced communications to large businesses and government sector. Verizon offers the largest high speed 3G and 4G network in America and delivers solutions that allow customers to connect securely. Corporate
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Company Information My company choice is Nike Inc. (Nike)‚ a multinational sports footwear‚ equipment and apparel manufacturing company based in Oregon‚ United States. This puts Nike in the apparel industry. In 2010‚ Forbes rated Nike as the top sports business with a total value of $10.7 billion. The most effective marketing strategy Nike employ is the sponsorship agreements they have with numerous top athletes in a variety of sports. Operating Risks of Nike When Nike was initially
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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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.............................. 4 3.0 Brief Liter ature Rev iew ........................................................................................... 4 3.1 Cornerstones of dividend policy ................................................................................................. 4 3.2 Equity Agency Cost Theory........................................................................................................ 5 3.3 Remedies to Agency Conflicts and their Costs ......................
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The dividend growth model approach limited application in practice because of its two assumptions. It assumes that the dividend per share will grow at a constant rate‚ g‚ forever The expected dividend growth rate‚ g‚ should be less than the cost of equity‚ Ke‚ to arrive at the simple growth formula. The growth formula is‚ Ke = (DIV1 / Po) + g These assumptions imply that the dividend growth approach cannot be applied to those companies‚ which are not paying any dividends‚ or whose dividend
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Introduction Capital structure (CS) is one of the most important aspects of the Financial Management of any organization. It aims is to identify and implement the best capital structure proportion possible that suits the organizations needs and objectives. An optimal Capital structure boosts the prosperity of the company in the long run and reduces the risk. CS is a mixture of a company ’s current and non current debt‚ common and preferred equity. It ’s the way a company finances its functions
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investment of capital‚ so a particular investment often be said to carry an opportunity cost. This is the difference between the actual return forgone from the alternative investment‚ olowe (1997) noted that the maximization of shareholders wealth is the most superior of all the objectives considers timing of return‚ take account of both return and risk and it balances short and long-term benefits. There is an important incentive sectors companies. In the case of a company listed on a stock exchange‚
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either keep its dividend payout at $2.48 or increase it slightly. Today however‚ she saw a report from Merrill Lynch stating that they were downgrading FPL stock due to management’s concern that the dividend payout was too high given the increasing risks facing the industry. This report caused Stark to reconsider his previous “hold” rating and she questioned if she would need to issue an updated report. Our problem was to determine if FPL is likely to change their current dividend policy and how such
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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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Current Dividends Policy Assessment “Having a clear dividend growth model targeting two dividend increases per year to 2013 of circa 10% annually subject to the TELUS Board’s assessment and determination” (Telus) Telus’s current dividend policy is to continue with its forward-looking dividend growth plan until at least the year of 2013. The plan is aimed to achieve two dividend increases per year with an annual growth rate of 10%. Of the two companies‚ Telus has a higher-than-industry dividend payout
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