ALTERNATIVE DIVIDEND POLICIES In 2014, Keenan Company paid dividends totaling $3,600,000 on net income of $10.8 million. Note that 2014 was a normal year and that for the past 10 years, earnings have grown at a constant rate of 10%. However, in 2015, earnings are expected to jump to $14 4 million and the firm expects to have profitable investment opportunities of $8 4 million. It is predicted that Keenanwill not be able tomaintain the 2015 level of earnings growth because the high 2015 earnings level is attributable to an exceptionally profitable new product line introduced that year. After 2015, the company will return to its previous 10% growth rate. Keenan’s target capital structure is 40% debt and 60% equity.
- a. Calculate Keenan’s total dividends for 2015 assuming that it follows each of the following policies:
1. Its 2015 dividend payment is set to force dividends to grow at the long-run growth rate in earnings.
2. It continues the 2014 dividend payout ratio.
3. It uses a pure residual dividend policy (40% of the $8 4 million investment is financed with debt and 60% with common equity).
4. It employs a regular-dividend-plus-extras policy, with the regular dividend being based on the long-run growth rate and the extra dividend being set according to the residual dividend policy.
- b. Which of the preceding policies would you recommend? Restrict your choices to the ones listed but justify your answer.
- c. Assume that investors expect Keenan to pay total dividends of $9,000,000 in 2015 and to have the dividend grow at 10% after 2015. The stock’s total market value is $180 million. What is the company’s
cost of equity ? - d. What is Keenan’s long-run average
return on equity ? [Hint: g = Retention rate × ROE =(1 0 – Payout rate) (ROE).] - e. Does a 2015 dividend of $9,000,000 seem reasonable in view of your answers to parts c and d? If not, should the dividend be higher or lower? Explain your answer.
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- ALTERNATIVE DIVIDEND POLICIES In 2013, Keenan Company paid dividends totaling 3,600,000 on net income of 10.8 million. Note that 2013 was a normal year and that tor the past 10 years, earnings have grown at a constant rate of 10%. However, in 2014, earnings are expected to jump to 10.4 million and the firm expects to have profitable investment opportunities of 8.4 million. It is predicted that Keenan will not be able to maintain the 2014 level of comings growth because the high 2014 earnings level is attributable to an exceptionally profitable new product line introduced that year. After 2014, the company will return to its previous 10% growth rate. Keenans target capital structure is 40% debt and 60% equity. a. Calculate Keenan s total dividends for 2014 assuming that it follows each of the following policies: 1. Its 2014 dividend payment is set to force dividends to grow at the long-run growth rate in earnings. 2. It continues the 2013 dividend payout ratio. 3. It uses a pure residual dividend policy (40% of the 8.4 million investment is financed with debt and 60% with common equity). 4. It employs a regular-dividend-plus-extras policy, with the regular dividend being based on the long-run growth rate and the extra dividend being set according to the residual dividend policy. b. Which of the preceding policies would you recommend? Restrict your choices to the ones listed but justify you answer. c. Assume that investors expect Keenan to pay total dividends of 9,000,000 in 2014 and to have the dividend grow at 10% after 2014. The stocks total market value is 180 million. What is the companys cost of equity? d. What is Keenans long-run average return on equity? [Hint: g = Retention rate ROE (1.0 Payout rate (ROE).] e. Does a 2014 dividend of 9,000,000 seem, reasonable in view of your answers to Parte c and d? If not, should the dividend be higher or lower? Explain your answer.arrow_forwardALTERNATIVE DIVIDEND POLICIES In 2015, Keenan Company paid dividends totaling 3,600,000 on net income of 10.8 million. Note that 2015 was a normal year and that for the past 10 years, earnings have grown at a constant rate of 10%. However, in 2016, earnings are exported to jump to 14.4 million and the firm expects to have profitable investment opportunities of 8.4 million. It is predicted that Keenan will not be able to maintain the 2016 level of earnings growth because the high 2016 earnings level is attributable to an exceptionally profitable new product line introduced that year. After 2016, the company will return to its previous 10% growth rate. Keenans target capital structure is 40% debt and 60% equity. a. Calculate Keenans total dividends for 2016 assuming that it follows each of the following policies: 1. Its 2016 dividend payment is set to force dividends to grow at the long-run growth rate in earnings. 2. It continues the 2015 dividend payout ratio. 3. It USOS a pure residual dividend policy (40% of the 8.4 million investment is financed with debt and 60% with common equity). 4. It employs a regular-dividend-plus-extras policy, with the regular dividend being based on the long-run growth rate? and the extra dividend being sot according to the residual dividend policy. a. b. Which of the preceding policies would you recommend? Restrict your choices to the ones listed but justify your answer. b. Assume that investors expect Keenan to pay total dividends of 9,000,000 in 2016 and to have the dividend grow at 10% after 2016. The stocks total market value is 100 million. What is the companys cost of equity? c. What is Keenans long-run average return on equity? [Hint: g = Retention rate ROE = (1.0 Payout rate)(ROE)] d. Does a 2016 dividend of 9,000,000 seem reasonable in view of your answers to parts c and d? If not, should the dividend be higher or lower? Explain your answer.arrow_forwardALTERNATIVE DIVIDEND POLICIES In 2017, Keenan Company paid dividends totaling 3,600,000 on net income of 10.8 million. Note that 2017 was a normal year and that for the past 10 years, earnings have grown at a constant rate of 10%. However, in 2018, earnings are expected to jump to 14.4 million and the firm expects to have profitable investment opportunities of 8.4 million. It Ls predicted that Keenan will not be able to maintain the 2018 level of earnings growth because the high 2018 earnings level is attributable to an exceptionally profitable new product line introduced that year. After 2018, the company will return to its previous 10% growth rate. Keenans target capital structure is 40% debt and 60% equity. a. Calculate Keenans total dividends for 2018 assuming that it follows each of the following policies: 1. Its 2018 dividend payment is set to force dividends to grow at the long-run growth rate in earnings. 2. It continues the 2017 dividend payout ratio. 3. It uses a pure residual dividend policy (40% of the 8.4 million investment is financed with debt and 60% with common equity). 4. It employs a regular-dividend-plus-extras policy, with the regular dividend being based on the long-run growth rate and the extra dividend being set according to the residual dividend policy. b. Which of the preceding policies would you recommend? Restrict your choices to the ones listed but justify your answer. c. Assume that investors expect Keenan to pay total dividends of 9,000,000 in 2018 and to have the dividend grow at 10% after 2018. The stocks total market value is 180 million. What is the companys cost of equity? d. What is Keenans long-run average return on equity? [Hint: g - Retention rate ROE = (1.0 Payout rate)(ROE)] e. Does a 2018 dividend of 9,000,000 seem reasonable in view of your answers to parts c and d? If not, should the dividend be higher or lower? Explain your answer.arrow_forward
- DIVIDENDS Brooks Sporting Inc. is prepared to report the following 2019 income statement (shown in thousands of dollars). Prior to reporting this income statement, the company wants to determine its annual dividend. The company has 320,000 shares of common stock outstanding, and its stock trades at 37 per share. a. The company had a 25% dividend payout ratio in 2018. If Brooks wants to maintain this payout ratio in 2019, what will be its per-share dividend in 2019? b. If the company maintains this 25% payout ratio, what will be the current dividend yield on the companys stock? c. The company reported net income of 1.35 million in 2018. Assume that the number of shares outstanding has remained constant. What was the companys per-share dividend in 2018? d. As an alternative to maintaining the same dividend payout ratio. Brooks is considering maintaining the same per-share dividend in 2019 that it paid in 2018. If it chooses this policy, what will be the companys dividend payout ratio in 2019? e. Assume that the company is interested in dramatically expanding its operations and that this expansion will require significant amounts of capital. The company would like to avoid transactions costs involved in issuing new equity. Given this scenario, would it make more sense for the company to maintain a constant dividend payout ratio or to maintain the same per-share dividend? Explain.arrow_forwardCALCULATING THE WACC Here is the condensed 2019 balance sheet for Skye Computer Company (in thousands of dollars): Skyes earnings per share last year were 3.20. The common stock sells for 55.00. last years dividend (D0) was 2.10, and a flotation cost of 10% would be required to sell new common stock. Security analysts are projecting that the common dividend will grow at an annual rate of 9%. Skyes preferred stock pays a dividend of 3.30 per share, and its preferred stock sells for 30.00 per share. The firms before-lax cost of debt is 10%, and its marginal tax rate is 25%. The firms currently outstanding 10% annual coupon rate, long-term debt sells at par value. The market risk premium is 5%, the risk-free rate is 6%, and Skyes beta is 1.516. The firms total debt, which is the sum of the companys short-term debt and long-term debt, equals 1.2 million. a. Calculate the cost of each capital component, that is, the after-tax cost of debt, the cost of preferred stock, the cost of equity from retained earnings, and the cost of newly issued common stock. Use the DCF method to find the cost of common equity. b. Now calculate the cost of common equity from retained earnings, using the CAPM method. c. What is the cost of new common stock based on the CAPM? (Hint: Find the difference between r1 and rs as determined by the DCF method, and add that differential to the CAPM value for rs.) d. If Skye continues to use the same market-value capital structure, what is the firms WACC assuming that (1) it uses only retained earnings for equity and (2) if it expands so rapidly that it must issue new common stock?arrow_forwardDividend Payout The Wei Corporation expects next year’s net income to be $15 million. The firm is currently financed with 40% debt. Wei has $12 million of profitable investment opportunities, and it wishes to maintain its existing debt ratio. According to the residual distribution model (assuming all payments are in the form of dividends), how large should Wei’s dividend payout ratio be next year?arrow_forward
- The Castle Company recently reported net profits after taxes of $15.8 million. It has 2.5 million shares of common stock outstanding and pays preferred dividends of $1 million a year. The company’s stock currently trades at $60 per share. Compute the stock’s earnings per share (EPS). What is the stock’s P/E ratio? Determine what the stock’s dividend yield would be if it paid $1.75 per share to common stockholders.arrow_forwardMunson Communications Company has just reported earnings for the year ended June 30, 2011. Below are the firm’s income statement and balance sheet. The Company had a 55 percent dividend payout ratio for the last 10 years and does not plan to change this policy. Based on internal forecasts, the company expects the demand for its products to grow at a rate of 14 percent for the next year and has projected the sales growth for 2012 to be 14 percent. Assume that equity accounts and long-term debt do not vary directly with sales, but change when retained earnings change or additional capital is issued. Munson Communications Company Balance Sheet as of June 30, 2011 Assets: Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity: Cash $1,728,639 Accounts payables $4,666,673 Accounts receivables 3,009,421 Notes payables 2,507,094 Inventories 11,492,993 Total current assets $16,231,054 Total current liabilities $7,173,767 Net fixed assets 22,380,636 Long-term debt 13,345,242…arrow_forward
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