2. A company was distributing 5$ of dividend per share till this year. The board decided to decrease the dividend per share to 3.5$ for the current quarter only. This information is leaked to the public on 23rd of April but the official announcement is made on April 25th. Assume the tax on dividend is same as tax on capital gains and investors believe that the decrease in dividends is a good action taken by the company as it is a bad time in the economy and has nothing to do with earnings. b-) (7 points) Under Modigliani and Miller world, as the CEO of company, when you decided to distribute 1 Billion dollar cash, one of your shareholders, Mr. A, who purchased the stock on the ex-date, raised a concern that he will not be getting any dividend and he will be adversely affected by the distribution of the cash. On the other hand, another shareholder, Mr. B, who was holding the stock before the ex-date argued that the earnings per share decreased and he is worse off because of the dividend payment. What would be your answer to these shareholders? Do you agree or not agree with them? If you agree justify your answer. If you don't agree, again justify your