Dividend Policy at FPL Group FPL Group Overview: The FPL Group was Florida’s largest electric utility group and the fourth largest in America. The FPL Group had annual revenues of exceeding $5 billion. Florida Power & Light Company‚ the main subsidiary of the FPL Group had 3.9 million customer accounts and covered a service area that included six of America’s ten fastest growing metropolitan areas. a. Summarize the key elements of FPL’s financial policy and compare it with other relevant
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Questions for Case 26 1. What are the problems here‚ and what do you recommend? 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? d. a residual payout policy is pursued? Note that case Exhibit 8 presents an estimate of the amount of borrowing needed. Assume that maximum debt capacity is‚ as a matter of policy‚ 40% of the book value of equity. In addition‚ please check
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Strategies for Sustainable Growth & Competence “ The Impact of Dividend Policy on Shareholders’ Wealth-A study of Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) in Sri Lanka Elangkumaran Periyathamby Department of Accountancy Advanced Technological Institute Trincomalee vpelango@yahoo.com Jenitta Jesuthas Navaratnaseelan Department of Accountancy Advanced Technological Institute Trincomalee jenyseelan@gmail.com The impact of firm’s dividend policy on shareholders’ wealth is an unresolved issue and has been
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of bank dividend policy: revisited John Theis and Amitabh S. Dutta D. Abbott Turner College of Business‚ Columbus State University‚ Columbus‚ Georgia‚ USA Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dickens et al. model of bank holding company dividend policy. They identified five explanatory factors in a sample of bank holding companies (BHCs). Banking companies typically pay larger dividends and more often than industrial firms. Investors often look at the dividends as being
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INTRODUCTION That report is a detailed review of dividend policy and whether or not could affect the market value of the company. When companies make profits‚ managers have to decide either to reinvest those profits for the good of company or either they could pay out the owners (shareholders) of the firm in dividends. Once they decide to pay dividends they may possibly establish a permanent dividend policy‚ which is the set of guidelines a company uses in order to decide how much of its profits
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Subject: Dividend Policy at FPL Group‚ Inc. Problem: Should FPL cut dividend? And should Stark revise her investment recommendation? Options: 1) Keep dividend per share growth at 1.65% 2) Dividend per share grows at 1% 3) Keep dividend per share constant at $2.46 4) Cut dividend by 30% and repurchase 10 million shares each year after the cut Recommendations: We recommend FPL to cut dividend by 30% in order to free up more cash to facilitate its growth and fight the upcoming competitions
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Contents Introduction 2 Theories and Determinants of Dividend Policy (Section 1) 2 Tax and Clienteles Theory 2 Free cash flow and the Agency Theory 3 Growth and The Lifecycle theory 4 Firm size 5 Information Asymmetry and Signaling theory 5 Risk and the Bird in hand theory 7 Profitability 8 Conclusion 9 Analysis of Apple and Dell Dividend Policy (Section 2) 9 Apple Inc. 9 Dell Inc. 11 Conclusion 13 Reference 14 Introduction In a private firm‚ after a period of business activity the owner of the
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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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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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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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