TAILIEUCHUNG - Financial Management Theory And Practice, Brigham-11th Ed - Chapter 18

Chapter 18 Distributions to Shareholders: Dividends and Repurchases a. The optimal distribution policy is one that strikes a balance between dividend yield and capital gains so that the firm’s stock price is maximized. b. The dividend irrelevance theory holds that dividend policy has no effect on either the price of a firm’s stock or its cost of capital. | Chapter 18 Distributions to Shareholders Dividends and Repurchases ANSWERS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS 18-1 a. The optimal distribution policy is one that strikes a balance between dividend yield and capital gains so that the firm s stock price is maximized. b. The dividend irrelevance theory holds that dividend policy has no effect on either the price of a firm s stock or its cost of capital. The principal proponents of this view are Merton Miller and Franco Modigliani MM . They prove their position in a theoretical sense but only under strict assumptions some of which are clearly not true in the real world. The bird-in-the-hand theory assumes that investors value a dollar of dividends more highly than a dollar of expected capital gains because the dividend yield component D1 P0 is less risky than the g component in the total expected return equation rS D1 P0 g. The tax preference theory proposes that investors prefer capital gains over dividends because capital gains taxes can be deferred into the future but taxes on dividends must be paid as the dividends are received. c. The information content of dividends is a theory which holds that investors regard dividend changes as signals of management forecasts. Thus when dividends are raised this is viewed by investors as recognition by management of future earnings increases. Therefore if a firm s stock price increases with a dividend increase the reason may not be investor preference for dividends but expectations of higher future earnings. Conversely a dividend reduction may signal that management is forecasting poor earnings in the future. The clientele effect is the attraction of companies with specific dividend policies to those investors whose needs are best served by those policies. Thus companies with high dividends will have a clientele of investors with low marginal tax rates and strong desires for current income. Similarly companies with low dividends will attract a clientele with little need for current .

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