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Chapter 19, Problem 15CQ
Dividends and Income Preference The desire for current income is not a valid explanation of preference for high current dividend policy because investors can always create homemade dividends by selling a portion of their stocks. Is this statement true or false? Why?
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In examining investors’ preferences for dividends, it is useful to begin with the concept of dividend irrelevance. Dividend irrelevance suggests that in a world with no taxes or brokerage (or transaction) costs, firms and investors are indifferent to the paying or receiving of dividends.
However, as these restrictions are relaxed, various factors suggest that firms should pursue high or low payouts. One such factor is:
Dividends received far into the future are significantly more uncertain than dividends received in the near future.
Based on the factor described, identify whether investors, in general, will tend to favor high or low payout ratios.
Favor a high payout
Favor a low payout
Dividend changes may be used by management as a credible communication tool to signal investors about future earnings under which of the following dividend policy theories?
Select one:
a. the clientele effect
b. the expectations theory
c. the residual dividend theory
d. the information effect
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In perfect capital markets there
Select one:
a. are no income taxes.
b. are no flotation costs.
c. All of these.
d. is no informational content assigned to a particular dividend policy.
Which of the following is the reason that preferred dividends declared during the period are deducted from net income in calculating return on common stockholders’ equity?
a.
Preferred dividends are not paid from net income.
b.
Preferred dividends are not a part of stockholders’ equity.
c.
Preferred dividends are not paid until all common stockholders have received their dividends, so preferred dividends are not relevant in the formula and so must be taken out of the equation.
d.
Preferred dividends will reduce the amount of income available for distribution to common stockholders.
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CORPORATE FINANCE >C<
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