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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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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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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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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two parts: 1. Dividend 2. Retained Earnings As retained earnings are reinvested the book value grows as perplaw back ratio which is (1- dividend payout ratio).The company’s growth depends upon return on equity i.e profitability & reinvestment of retained earnings. As per the case‚ assuming the ROE of the year 2006 to 2011 for six years as the average ROE of year 2000 to 2005 i.e 15.58% and plaw back ratio as average of years 2000 to 2005 i.e 72.17%‚ we will compute the dividends‚ EPS and book
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MBA 509 Recommended Chapter Questions These questions are the focus of what I am covering on the final exam. Understand the answers to these questions and should not be surprised by anything on the exam. Chapter 14: Capital Structure in a Perfect Market 14-5. Suppose Alpha Industries and Omega Technologies have identical assets that generate identical cash flows. Alpha Industries is an all-equity firm‚ with 10 million shares outstanding that trade for a price of$22 per share. Omega Technologies
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w w w e tr .X m eP e ap UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Advanced Level .c rs om 9707/32 May/June 2012 3 hours BUSINESS STUDIES Paper 3 CASE STUDY * 1 2 4 3 0 0 6 3 4 8 * Additional Materials: Answer Booklet/Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet‚ follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write
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investment. These are: Dividend per Share The dividend per share ratio relates the dividends pertaining to an accounting period to the amount of shares in issue during the period. The ratio is given as follows: Dividend per share = Dividends pertaining to a period Number of shares in issue The ratio provides an indication of the cash return a shareholder receives from holding shares in a company. Although it is a useful measure‚ it must be remembered that the dividend received will usually
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