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Author: Ross
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Chapter 19, Problem 7CQ
Dividends and Stock Price Last month, Central Virginia Power Company, which had been having trouble with cost overruns on a nuclear power plant that it had been building, announced that it was “temporarily suspending dividend payments due to the cash low crunch associated with its investment program.” The company’s stock price dropped from 528.50 to $25 when this announcement was made. How would you interpret this change in the stock price? (That is, what would you say caused it?
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Last month, Central Virginia Power Company, which had been having trouble with cost overruns on a nuclear power plant that it had been building, announced that it was “temporarily suspending payments due to the cash flow crunch associated with its investment program.” The company’s stock price dropped from $28.50 to $25 when this announcement was made.
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CORPORATE FINANCE >C<
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