TERM PAPER ADVANCED FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT on "ITC DIVIDEND POLICY” Submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirements for III Semester Master of Business Administration Submitted By: PRIYANNA MARTIS (1PT12MBA57) III Semester, MBA “FINANCE” Submitted to: Prof. G.V.M SHARMA MBA DEPARTMENT
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Dividend Policy at FPL Group, Inc Case Q1) Why do firms pay dividends? What, in general, are the advantages and disadvantages of paying cash dividends? Ans: The purpose of dividend payouts is to return wealth back to the company shareholders instead of using it for operations. Dividends provide investors with regular income from their investments and act as an incentive to continue or start investing in the company. The company’s share price will drop in relation to the dividend payout
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best to keep the dividend as it is now. Before I brief you on the specifics of my decision, I feel the need to provide basic information about our company that surrounds this issue. To be more specific, I am referring to the past decisions on our dividend policy and our financing needs. Even if you are already aware of the specifics, please bear with me as this has played a crucial role in my decision. Our company has generally had two different payout policies: the dividend payout and the stock
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Dividend Policy at Linear Technology Firms pay dividends for a multitude of reasons, such as the ability to make use of excess cash that stockpiles when a firm lacks enough viable investment opportunities with positive NPVs. Paying dividends can also send strong signals to investors of positive future earnings while rewarding them with immediate cash returns. From the market’s perspective, merely sending statements that a company is financially healthy doesn’t hold much weight. However, when a
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essay will trace the dividend payouts of three public companies in the last consecutive fifteen years and find the key factors which affect a company’s payout policy. The three public companies, namely Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL), CLP Holdings Limited (CLP), and The Bank of East Asia (BEA), are all the constituent stocks of the Hang Seng Index. HWL Dividend Payout History over Last Fifteen Years Figure 1.1 A glance at the figure provided reveals changes in HWL’s dividend payout in the last
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Yifan Wu Class Session: MWF 1:50-2:45 PM Case 1: Dividend Policy at FPL Group Inc. Because of FPL’s reluctance to increase its dividends and increased competition in the electric utility industry, Merrill Lynch’s utility analyst downgraded FPL Group Inc. Kate Stark, utility analyst at First Securities Corporation, wondered whether she should issue an updated report about stocks of FPL. We investigated the potential risks faced by FPL and its payout policies, and according to the results, we recommend
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IMPACT OF DIVIDEND POLICY ON SHAREHOLDERS’ VALUE: A STUDY OF INDIAN FIRMS Synopsis of the Thesis to be submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In MANAGEMENT By Sujata Kapoor Enrollment No: 064009053 Date of Registration: July 2006 Under the Guidance of Supervisor: Dr Kanwal Anil Co-Supervisor: Dr Naseem Abidi Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida A-10, SECTOR 62, NOIDA, INDIA (12) December, 2009 Sujata Kapoor, JBS, JIIT,Dec’ 2009
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countries. This paper empirically investigates the impact of foreign institutional investors on corporate dividend policy in the Indian stock market. Using sample firms whose ownership by foreign investors was 5% or higher through the fiscal period from 2007 to 2011, we examine whether foreign institutional investors with more than 5% of a company's shares can exert a significant impact on dividends. In addition, we investigate if more shares that foreign institutional investors have over major shareholders
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Stern School of Business New York University Cases in Financial Management B40.2345 Tony Marciano amarcian@stern.nyu.edu KMC 9-87 First Class Assignment For the first class meeting, I will expect you to prepare the INTEL case in your course packet. You should use the detailed questions given in the course packet to organize your thoughts and analysis about the case. Our class discussion will cover the issues raised by the questions, i.e.: (i) What capital structure makes sense? (ii)
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Structure and Cash Flows As Determinants of Corporate Dividend Policy in Pakistan Talat Afza (Corresponding Author) Faculty of Business Administration, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Jinnah Building Defence Road, Off Raiwind Road, Lahore, Pakistan E-mail: talatafza@ciitlahore.edu.pk Hammad Hassan Mirza COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Park Road, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan E-mail: al_hammd@hotmail.com Abstracts Dividend Policy is among the widely addressed topics in modern
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