A recent survey of financial executives found that they favor stock repurchases over dividends. How does that

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A recent survey of financial executives found that they favor stock repurchases over dividends. How does that finding seem to contradict the idea that firms use decisions to signal future firm prospects to the market?

Distribution
The word "distribution" has several meanings in the financial world, most of them pertaining to the payment of assets from a fund, account, or individual security to an investor or beneficiary. Retirement account distributions are among the most...