Natsam Corporation has $250 million of excess cash. The firm has no debt and 500 million shares outstanding with a current market price of $15 per share. Natsams board has decided to pay out this cash as a one-time dividend.

a) What is the ex-dividend price of a share in a perfect capital market?

b) If the board instead decided to use the cash to do a one-time share repurchase, in a perfect capital market what is the price of the shares once the repurchase is complete?

c) In a perfect capital market, which policy, in part (a) or (b), makes investors in the firm better off?