KEY QUESTION Corporations often distribute profits to their shareholders in the form of dividends, which are simply

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KEY QUESTION Corporations often distribute profits to their shareholders in the form of dividends, which are simply checks mailed out to shareholders. Suppose that you have the chance to buy a share in a fashion company called Rogue Designs for $35 and that the company will pay dividends of $2 per year on that share every year. What is the annual percentage rate of return? Next, suppose that you and other investors could get a 12 percent per year rate of return by owning the stocks of other very similar fashion companies. If investors care only about rates of return, what should happen to the share price of Rogue Designs? (Hint:

This is an arbitrage situation.)

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Economics

ISBN: 9780073336947

17th Edition

Authors: Campbell McConnell , Stanley Brue

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