Payout Corp. has regularly paid a quarterly dividend of $.50 per share on its 20,000 outstanding shares.

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Payout Corp. has regularly paid a quarterly dividend of $.50 per share on its 20,000 outstanding shares. Now suppose that Payout announces that instead of paying this dividend, it plans to repurchase $10,000 worth of stock instead.
a. What effect will the repurchase have on an investor who currently holds 100 shares and sells 1 of those shares back to the company in the repurchase?
b. Compare the effects of the repurchase to the effects of the cash dividend that you worked out in Problem 5.
Dividend
A dividend is a distribution of a portion of company’s earnings, decided and managed by the company’s board of directors, and paid to the shareholders. Dividends are given on the shares. It is a token reward paid to the shareholders for their...
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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

ISBN: 978-1259722615

9th edition

Authors: Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Alan Marcus

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