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The main purpose of this research paper is to find whether there is a relationship between the dividend policy and stock price. The dividend policy is a wide topic that requires a lot of extensive research and time in order to analyze everything because there are many several different theories, claims, concerns and suggestions regarding the dividend policy and its impact in the stock prices. However, this research will mainly focus in the most three prominent theories know as Bird-in-hands, Irrelevance of dividend policy and Relevance of dividend policy theory. In addition, the literature analysis will reveal how managers control their firm’s stock price value.
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How accurate is the statement that “The dividend policy of a firm is irrelevant”2010 •
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The importance of dividend policy in the current business world of significant agency problems between the principal and agent cannot be over emphasized. Those saddled with the responsibility to oversee the affairs of the organization are confronted with the decisions to improve the firm value; such decisions bother on financing structure, investment in assets and dividend policy. Dividend policies are crucial aspect of organization management and it serves as a mechanism for rewarding owners of a company for their investment. According to Nssim and Ziv (2001) dividend policies provide a guideline for deciding dividend payments to shareholders dividend represents the return accruing to shareholders for investing in an organization in order to acquire stocks (Eriki and Okafor,2002) dividend policy on the other hand deals with the division of profit (Net) between shareholders. Financial performance on the other hand, can be viewed as how well a firm enhances its shareholders’ wealth a...
This paper provides literature on dividend policy decisions by the corporates in the perspective of shareholder's wealth. Dividend payment is a signal of performance of Firms. If dividend increases, share price will also increases, which leads to the creation of shareholder's wealth. Although, extant literature review have examined issues of dividend policy, still they produced inconclusive results on the dividend policy decisions. Thus a good model that combines dividends with share buybacks is a fairly good compromise due to its advantage of flexibility, tax treatment and intangible gains. Share repurchases leads to better tax treatment than dividend and are more flexible than regular dividends for the company.
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