Corporate Finance: The Core, Student Value Edition Plus Mylab Finance With Pearson Etext -- Access Card Package (4th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134426785
Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 17, Problem 8P
Suppose the board of Natsam Corporation decided to do the share repurchase in Problem 7 part b, but you, as an investor, would have preferred to receive a dividend payment. How can you leave yourself in the same position as if the board had elected to make the dividend payment instead?
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A company would repurchase its own stock for all of the following reasons except:a. it wishes to prevent unwanted takeover attempts.b. it wishes to increase the earnings per share.c. it believes the stock is overvalued.d. it needs the stock for employee bonuses.
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A company would repurchase its own shares for all of the following reasons except if it
a.believes the shares are overvalued.
b.wishes to increase the earnings per share.
c.wishes to prevent unwanted takeover attempts.
d.needs the shares for employee bonuses.
If payout policy is irrelevant or has no effect on firm value, then why do individuals have a preference on payout policy? Shefrin and Statman (1984) provide a really interesting illustration of why payout policy may be important to individual investors by highlighting a particular case of a dividend omission by Consolidated Edison in the 70s, which occurred after 89 years of uninterrupted dividends. One of the shareholder's statements concerning the missed dividend payment during the 1974 annual meeting was as follows:
What are we to do? You give us shorthand answers. You don't know when the dividend is coming back. Who is going to pay my rent? I had a husband. Now Con Ed has to be my husband. (Shefrin et al., 1984, p. 276)
An excellent and very readable summary questioning the dividend's relevance is provided by Black (1976) and a summary of the current state of the literature is found in Baker and Weigand (2015). The questions that you should consider for this discussion response…
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Corporate Finance: The Core, Student Value Edition Plus Mylab Finance With Pearson Etext -- Access Card Package (4th Edition)
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