Download or read book Earnings Information Conveyed by Dividend Initiations and Omissions Classic Reprint written by Paul M. Healy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Earnings Information Conveyed by Dividend Initiations and Omissions Together, the above three findings indicate that the information conveyed by dividend initiations and omissions is related to earnings changes in the year of and one year subsequent to the announcement of these dividend policy changes. This evidence is consistent with the dividend information hypothesis. The results are also consistent with l.intner's description that in making dividend policy decisions managers consider past, current and future earnings. Investors therefore interpret dividend initiations and omissions as changes in managements' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book Earnings Information Conveyed by Dividend Initiations and Omissions written by Paul M. Healy and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Price Reactions to Dividend Initiations and Omissions written by Roni Michaely and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initiations and omissions of dividend payments are important changes in corporate financial policy. This paper investigates the market reaction to such changes in terms of prices, volume, and changes in clientele. Consistent with the prior literature we find that short run price reactions to omissions are greater than for initiations ( -7.0% vs. +3.4% three day return). However, we show that, when we control for the change in the magnitude of dividend yield (which is larger for omissions), the asymmetry shrinks or disappears, depending on the specification. In the 12 months after the announcement (excluding the event calendar month), there is a significant positive market-adjusted return for firms initiating dividends of +7.5% and a significant negative market-adjusted return for firms omitting dividends of -11.0%. However, the post dividend omission drift is distinct from and more pronounced than that following earnings surprises. A trading rule employing both samples (long in initiation stocks and short in omission stocks) earns positive returns in 22 out of 25 years. Although these changes in dividend policy might be expected to produce shifts in clientele, we find little evidence for such a shift. Volume increases, but only slightly and briefly, and there are no important changes in institutional ownership.

Download or read book Dividend Initiations Information Content and Informed Trading in the Options Market written by Balasingham Balachandran and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We find that informed trading in the option market prior to dividend initiation is negatively related to announcement period price reactions. This relation is more prevalent among firms with abnormal trading in call options, higher stock price runup, and higher option liquidity. We also find improvements in stock liquidity following dividend initiation. The improvement in stock liquidity is positively related to the increase in institutional investors' holdings, and negatively related to the relative size of the dividend initiation payment and preannouncement option trading. We further find positive abnormal earnings following dividend initiation. Overall, these findings indicate that dividend initiation conveys information regarding sustainable future earnings and improvements in liquidity, and informed traders are active in the option market prior to dividend initiation.

Download or read book Information Associated with Dividend Initiations written by John S. Howe and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the intra-industry information effects of announcements of dividend initiations. Our results indicate that the stock prices of industry competitors do not react to dividend initiations. Further, analysts do not revise their earnings forecasts for nonannouncing, rival firms. These findings are not sensitive to the manner in which we estimate abnormal returns or calculate forecast revisions. Thus, the information conveyed to the market by the decision to initiate dividends contains no industry-wide component. Dividend initiation appears to be a firm-specific event.

Download or read book Corporate Payout Policy written by Harry DeAngelo and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Payout Policy synthesizes the academic research on payout policy and explains "how much, when, and how". That is (i) the overall value of payouts over the life of the enterprise, (ii) the time profile of a firm's payouts across periods, and (iii) the form of those payouts. The authors conclude that today's theory does a good job of explaining the general features of corporate payout policies, but some important gaps remain. So while our emphasis is to clarify "what we know" about payout policy, the authors also identify a number of interesting unresolved questions for future research. Corporate Payout Policy discusses potential influences on corporate payout policy including managerial use of payouts to signal future earnings to outside investors, individuals' behavioral biases that lead to sentiment-based demands for distributions, the desire of large block stockholders to maintain corporate control, and personal tax incentives to defer payouts. The authors highlight four important "carry-away" points: the literature's focus on whether repurchases will (or should) drive out dividends is misplaced because it implicitly assumes that a single payout vehicle is optimal; extant empirical evidence is strongly incompatible with the notion that the primary purpose of dividends is to signal managers' views of future earnings to outside investors; over-confidence on the part of managers is potentially a first-order determinant of payout policy because it induces them to over-retain resources to invest in dubious projects and so behavioral biases may, in fact, turn out to be more important than agency costs in explaining why investors pressure firms to accelerate payouts; the influence of controlling stockholders on payout policy --- particularly in non-U.S. firms, where controlling stockholders are common --- is a promising area for future research. Corporate Payout Policy is required reading for both researchers and practitioners interested in understanding this central topic in corporate finance and governance.

Download or read book The Information Content of Dividend Initiations written by Edward Alexander Dyl and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We hypothesize that the initiation of cash dividends indicates that a firm?s earnings and cash flows have become fundamentally less risky. We present evidence to support this hypothesis. A sample of firms initiating dividends displays a precipitous decrease in risk immediately following the dividend announcement. Although these firms? earnings do not subsequently increase, earnings volatility is significantly lower following the dividend decision. We also find that the decrease in risk is related to the excess return observed around the dividend announcement.

Download or read book Dividend Omissions and Forecasts of Future Earnings written by Mukesh Bajaj and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We find that dividend-omitting firms suffer a greater drop in short-term and long-term forecasts of future earnings than their industry average. Earnings and dividend announcements are substitute signals of short- term earnings prospects - after controlling for recent earnings announcements, dividend omissions do not provide incremental information about short-term earnings expectations. Even after controlling for contemporaneous earnings and other announcements, however, omissions provide incremental information about long-term earnings forecasts. Our findings support Miller and Modigliani's [1961] information content hypothesis that while dividend omissions are associated with short-term earnings downturns, they convey incremental information about quot;permanentquot; earnings prospects.

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Download or read book Corporate Financial Decisions and Market Value written by Giovanni Marseguerra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do managers of a firm choose between alternative finan cial policies? Can the choice of a particular financial policy affect the value of the firm? Since the early 1960s, the debate on these questions has been lively and interesting as economists have inves tigated the effect on the value of the firm of relaxing the various assumptions in the celebrated Modigliani-Miller theory. Further more, even if we stick to the MM-assumptions (that is, we assume perfect and complete capital markets, no taxes and symmetric information), and we therefore know that only optimally chosen investments determine firm's value, another interesting question arises: How does the structure of ownership affect investment de cisions (and, in turn, values)? This research monograph attempts to analyze some of the issues involved in this debate. It belongs to the area of mathematical economics and is intended to appeal to mathematical economists as well as economists and mathemati cians. It is meant to deal with economically relevant problems in a mathematically adequate way. To decide whether or not it succeeds in this task, it is up to the reader. I am greatly indebted to Dr. Margaret Bray for her supervi sion of my PhD thesis in Economics at the London School of Eco nomics from which this book resulted. She helped me as friend and adviser through many struggles in the last three years and invested a great amount of work in this thesis.

Download or read book Clean Surplus written by Richard P. Brief and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. The relationship between the present discounted value of future cash flows and discounted excess earnings should be viewed as a mathematical property of a double-entry book[1]keeping system based on clean surplus. The purpose of this anthology is to facilitate future research by highlighting these historical developments and by showing how more recent theoretical and empirical research fits into the earlier history. The book is divided into four sections: historical overview; analytical properties of clean surplus; the theory of the clean surplus equation; and empirical implications.

Download or read book Survey Research in Corporate Finance written by H. Kent Baker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate finance is a multifaceted discipline in which everything works in theory but not necessarily in practice. To bridge this gap, intelligently designed and executed surveys are essential in empirically validating conceptual hypotheses and the relative usefulness of various theories. Survey Research in Corporate Finance is a unique summary of state-of-the-art survey research in finance. Baker, Singleton, and Veit catalog and discuss the most important contributions to the field and provide a longitudinal perspective unavailable anywhere else. They offer an objective look at the role survey research in finance should play and illustrate the general and particular aspects of the form this research should take, how it is typically carried out, and how it should ideally be carried out, taking into account considerations developed throughout the book. The book provides financial researchers with a useful overview of survey methodology, synthesizes the major streams or clusters of survey research in corporate finance, and offers a valuable resource and guide for those interested in conducting and reading survey research in finance. Because a variety of views exist on the role of survey research in corporate finance, the authors present key findings from the varying perspectives of finance academics, finance journal editors, and finance practitioners. Synthesizing survey results on major issues in finance and offering knowledge learned from years of communications between academics and practitioners, Survey Research in Corporate Finance enables students and scholars of finance, as well as decision makers in many different kinds of firms, to actually determine how the theories on which their work is based actually play out in practice. This book is an essential, one-of-a-kind reference for any practitioners or academics interested in survey research in corporate finance.

Download or read book Tax and Optimal Capital Budgeting Decisions written by Suzanne Farrar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume responds to the system of corporate taxation in the UK and aims to develop mathematical programming models which determine the optimum combination of investment decisions and financing methods for capital budgeting on a post-tax basis, incorporating specific important areas not previously examined in the literature. Suzanne Farrar also aims to achieve operational experience of these models, in order to gain insights into the impact of taxation on project appraisal in complex situations where several potentially distorting tax effects operate simultaneously, and the general practical feasibility of operational use. Beginning with capital investment and the UK Corporate Tax System, Farrar moves onto capital investment appraisal, tax and optimal financing, optimisation models in capital budgeting, the mathematical programming model and operational use of that model.

Download or read book Corporate Finance written by CFA Institute and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide to corporate finance, for today’s practitioners from CFA Institute After ten years, the third edition of the CFA Institute Investment Series’ Corporate Finance text has arrived with a decisive focus on the needs of today’s investment professionals. Now titled Corporate Finance: Economic Foundations and Financial Modeling, this third edition outlines the essential tools, concepts, and applications within the discipline of corporate finance that businesses need to thrive. New and refreshed content on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations alongside foundational coverage of capital structure and measures of leverage empower readers to support the growth of their organizations and develop the skills to succeed in our current corporate world. Six new chapters expand this updated discussion of corporate finance via topics such as corporate structures and ownership, capital investments, business models and risks, corporate restructuring, and more. The companion workbook (sold separately) offers problems and solutions aligning with the text and allows learners to test their comprehension of key concepts. Through Corporate Finance: Economic Foundations and Financial Modeling, 3rd Edition, readers will become proficient in the following areas: Corporate structures and governance Capital budgeting Cost of capital Measures of leverage Business models, risks, and restructurings CFA Institute is the world’s premier association for investment professionals, and the governing body for the CFA® Program, CIPM® Program, CFA Institute ESG Investing Certificate, and Investment Foundations® Program. Those seeking a deeper understanding of the fundamentals behind corporate finance will value the level of expertise CFA Institute brings to the discussion, providing a clear, comprehensive resource for students and professionals alike.

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