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Stock Dividend Vs Stock Split
A stock dividend is when the company uses the money that would ordinarily go to pay shareholder dividends but instead uses it to buy additional … uses the money that would ordinarily go to pay shareholder dividends but instead uses it to buy additional shares for the shareholder. The stock split occurs when the company issues new shares (2 or more) for every existing share held by investors. The former action decreases the … increases the float by doubling the number of shares available for purchase.
It really depends on the company. For instance, Apple split its stock 7:1 in 2014, which drove the price down significantly and made it more attractive for retail buyers (Stock Split, 2019). Because many retail buyers view Apple as at the forefront of the tech industry, they were willing to buy. Apple, too, … of dollars, thereby reducing its float after the split and……
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Integrated Waveguide Technologies Preparing For A Public Offering
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Distribution policy is a set of principle stipulating the guidelines for cash dividends payout to the shareholders and stock repurchases. Dividends mean the company's earnings distributed to the stockholders declared during the year, interim dividends, or at the end of a financial year referred to as the final dividend. Dividends account as … legal restrictions, the volatility of expected future earnings, and flotation costs (Baker & Weigand, 2015).
Dividends may be distributed in the form of stock repurchases or cash dividends. Cash dividends offer investors a stream of income. Stock repurchases entail the buyback of a firm shares. Stock repurchases are employed as a strategy for managing a company's real earnings. Moreover, the stock repurchases have an inverse relationship with the EPS. The dividend distribution policy ought to be stable to ensure investor confidence. Therefore, management faces … faces the tradeoff of adopting a capital budgeting decision to lower……
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Al-Malkawi, H.-A. N., Rafferty, M., & Pillai, R. (2010). Dividend Policy?: A Review of Literatures and Empirical Evidence. International Bulletin of Business Administration, 5(9), 38–45. https://doi.org/10.12816/0037572
Baker, H. K., & Weigand, R. (2015). Corporate dividend policy revisited. In Managerial Finance (Vol. 41, Issue 2, pp. 126–144). https://doi.org/10.1108/MF-03-2014-0077
Black, F., & Scholes, M. (2010). The effects of dividend yield and dividend policy on common stock prices and returns. In Journal of Financial Economics (Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 1–22). https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-405X(74)90006-3
Farre-Mensa, J., Michaely, R., & Schmalz, M. (2014). Payout Policy. Annual Review of Financial Economics, 6, 75–134.
Mohanasundari, M., & Vidhya, P. (2016). Dividend Policy and Its Impact on Firm Value: A Review of Theories and Empirical Evidence. Journal of Management Sciences and Technology, 3(3), 59–69.
Travlos, Trigeorgis, & Vafeas. (2001). No Title. Multinational Finance Journal, 5(2), 87–112.
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Shareholder Vs Stakeholder Theory
… (Reda, 2018).
Now that companies can purchase their own shares on the marketplace, one can see what the effect has been: currently the stock market is in the longest bull run in equities history (Chen, 2019). During that time, P/E ratios have soared far higher than their … compensated with company shares, want to rake in the millions of dollars that they are potentially sitting on in terms of shares and stock options, they have to authorize corporate share buybacks so that they too can unload their shares and make money. They are shareholders, too, ……
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Augustine. (n.d.). Commentaries on Sermon on the Mount. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/16011.htm
Chen, J. (2019). Market Milestones as the Bull Market Turns 10. Retrieved from https://www.investopedia.com/market-milestones-as-the-bull-market-turns-10-4588903
Egan, M. (2018). Tax cut triggers $437 billion explosion of stock buybacks. Retrieved from https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/10/investing/stock-buybacks-record-tax-cuts/index.html " target="_blank" REL="NOFOLLOW">
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Elon Musk And Power At Tesla
… company was a legitimate growth company. The result was a series of PR moves designed to help pump up the price of the stock—which worked as Tesla’s stock price soared, making shareholders happy and rich. However, when sell side analysts began to criticize Musk’s actions and pick apart the company’s revenues … However, when sell side analysts began to criticize Musk’s actions and pick apart the company’s revenues and accounting, short interest increased and the stock was hammered back down. In order to provide more incentive among shareholders to increase their purchases of the stock, Musk claimed he had funding secured to take the company private at $420 per share. A short squeeze ensued and the stock soared—only to reverse course once more when it became apparent that Musk had nothing of the sort secured. He was fined $20 million … to retain his role as CEO of the……
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Abels, P. B., & Martelli, J. T. (2013). CEO duality: how many hats are too many?. Corporate Governance: The international journal of business in society, 13(2), 135-147.
Dickins, D. (2010). CEO and COB duality: Does it matter. Internal Auditing, 25(4), 35-38.
Gaydos, R. (2018). Elon Musk may have violated Tesla’s conduct and ethics code after smoking up in podcast interview: report. Retrieved from https://www.foxnews.com/tech/elon-musk-may-have-violated-teslas-conduct-and-ethics-code-after-smoking-up-in-podcast-interview-report
Porter, J. (2018). Tesla has found a new chairperson to replace Elon Musk. Retrieved from https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/8/18074800/tesla-new-chair-2018-robyn-denholm-elon-musk
Yang, T., & Zhao, S. (2014). CEO duality and firm performance: Evidence from an exogenous shock to the competitive environment. Journal of Banking & Finance, 49, 534-552.
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Globalization Of Insurance
...Stock While the U.S. enjoys the largest insurance market, U.S. companies no longer own the majority of the insurance market share in the country. Foreign companies do with 74% (Vaughan & Vaughan, 2013). This goes to show the extent to which foreign companies have grown in the insurance industry thanks to the globalization of insurance but also to the spread of wealth throughout the world. Insurance companies and finance go together as the former depends upon the latter for return on investment (ROI). Part of the problem with the globalization of insurance is that everything has been globalized—right down to investable markets. Since 2008, central banks around the world have lowered rates to the point that it is impossible for insurance funds to obtain a targeted ROI without investing in risk assets. Likewise, regulatory bodies have gone global as well with organizations like the Common Framework for the Supervision of Internationally……
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Egan, M. (2018). Tax cut triggers $437 billion explosion of stock buybacks. Retrieved from https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/10/investing/stock-buybacks-record-tax-cuts/index.html " target="_blank" REL="NOFOLLOW">
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SEC Enforcement Of Goldman Sachs And AIG
… and did not appeal. Tourre was ordered to pay $825,000 in penalties (Baer, 2014).
The impact of the charges on Goldman’s reputation and stock price were not negligible. Charges were filed in April 2010. GS stock was trading at $180. By June of 2010, the stock had fallen to $131. It rebounded to $175 by January of 2011 before falling back to $88 in November of 2011. From that … to $131. It rebounded to $175 by January of 2011 before falling back to $88 in November of 2011. From that low, the stock has bounced between $275 and $150 and currently trades just shy of $225 (thanks in no small part to central banking intervention and ……
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Baer, J. (2014). Former Goldman Trader Tourre Won't Appeal Fraud Verdict. Retrieved from https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-goldman-trader-tourre-wont-seek-appeal-of-securities-fraud-verdict-1401221556
Huston, J. H., & Spencer, R. W. (2018). Quantitative easing and asset bubbles. Applied Economics Letters, 25(6), 369-374.
Lewis, M. (2010). The Big Short. NY: W. W. Norton.
McDonald, R., & Paulson, A. (2015). AIG in Hindsight. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 29(2), 81-106.
Murray, N., Manrai, A. K., & Manrai, L. A. (2018). The role of incentives/punishments, moral hazard, and conflicts of interests in the 2008 financial crisis. The bi-annual academic publication of Universidad ESAN, 22(43).
SEC. (2010). Litigation Release No. 21489 / April 16, 2010. Retrieved from https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2010/lr21489.htm
Weisenthal, J. (2009). Goldman Sachs made billions shorting AIG. Retrieved from https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-made-billions-shorting-aig-2009-3
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Directors Remuneration And Its Impact On Share Repurchases
… by being given shares and options in the company. When companies use (or borrow) money to repurchase shares they effectively prop up the stock price, which allows directors and top level executives to sell their shares at a higher price than would be the case if these ……
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Bendix, R. (1974). Inequality and social structure: a comparison of Marx and Weber. American Sociological Review, 149-161.
Chan, R., & Hoy, M. (1991). East—West joint ventures and buyback contracts. Journal of International Economics, 30(3-4), 331-343.
Choi, C. J., & Maldoom, D. (1992). A simple model of buybacks. Economics Letters, 40(1), 77-82.
Durkheim, E. (1997). The Division of Labor in Society. NY: The Free Press.
Egan, M. (2018). Tax cut triggers $437 billion explosion of stock buybacks. Retrieved from https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/10/investing/stock-buybacks-record-tax-cuts/index.html " target="_blank" REL="NOFOLLOW">
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Starbucks
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Introduction
Over the past 20 years, Starbucks has experienced both periods of strong growth, and periods of retraction, most notably during the Great Recession. The company’s investment strategies should have reflected its strategic priorities during this period, and an analysis of the company’s financials over this time should illustrate that. Starbucks’ growth since 1998 has mainly been in overseas markets, but the company has also branched out into other business lines, in an attempt to diversify its income streams. Today, Starbucks appears to have settled into more of a “cash cow” state, where the company is earning healthy returns from its businesses, and focused on growth mainly in some of the overseas markets where the coffee market is maybe a bit more nascent, in other words where there remains high growth potential going forward.
Starbucks Income Statement
Starbucks has been a strong growth story for most of this period. According……
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Cannivet, M. (2019) Starbucks’ big stock buyback limits future upside. Forbes. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelcannivet/2019/08/29/starbucks-big-stock-buyback-limits-future-upside/#26c434067047
Hawley, J. (2019) Who are Starbucks’ main competitors? Investopedia. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/101315/who-are-starbucks-main-competitors.asp
Macrotrends (2019) Starbucks. Macrotrends.com. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SBUX/starbucks/financial-statements
Marketwatch (2019) McDonalds Marketwatch. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/mcd/financials
Sharf, S. (2013) Starbucks ordered to pay Kraft $2.8 billion. Forbes. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2013/11/12/starbucks-ordered-to-pay-kraft-2-8-billion/#5516b7fa167d
Starbucks 1999 Annual Report. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://s22.q4cdn.com/869488222/files/doc_financials/annual/1999/102640_financials2_99.pdf
The Coffee Brewers (2008) With Starbucks closing 600 shops, is the coffee business still lucrative? The Coffee Brewers. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://www.thecoffeebrewers.com/starbucks.html
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Enterprise Risk Management In Wells Fargo During The Pandemic
… mortgage-backed securities for which…[break]…premium is determined by the market and is usually priced according to the volatility of the underlying. For very volatile stocks or financial instruments the premium can be quite high, making using the derivative for risk management purposes somewhat costly. As a speculative tool, … speculative tool, however, derivatives can be quite effective, as Bill Ackman showed when his hedge fund netted billions by speculating with derivatives a stock market crash.
Wells Fargo could hedge risk by buying derivatives on its investments, using a call/put (i.e., long/short) strategy with options. The company … could purchase long-dated puts at an in-the-money strike price in order to hedge against downside risk in GLD. If the company shorts a stock like TSLA, it call options to hedge against upside risk. The company could also use derivatives as a speculative tool; instead of investing ……
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Beasley, M. (2020). How to Leverage ERM Principles to Better Respond to COVID-19-Related Risks. ERM Professional Insights.
Derysh, I. (2020). Watchdog questions why Wells Fargo reported giving only one large PPP loan to a Black-owned business. Retrieved from https://www.salon.com/2020/07/22/watchdog-questions-why-wells-fargo-reported-giving-only-one-large-ppp-loan-to-a-black-owned-business/
English, C. (2020). Wells Fargo Forced to Cut Its Dividend After Fed Stress Test. Here’s What Other Banks Did. Retrieved from https://www.barrons.com/articles/wells-fargo-forced-to-cut-its-dividend-after-fed-stress-test-51593467664
Hall, J. (2007). Internal Auditing and ERM: Fitting in and Adding Value. Retrieved from https://global.theiia.org/about/about-the-iia/Public Documents/Sawyer_Award_2007.pdf
Kaplan, R. & Mikes, A. (2012). Managing risks: A new framework. Harvard Business Review, 3.
Lewis, M. (2010). The Big Short. NY: W. W. Norton.
Lundqvist, S. (2014). Abandoning Silos for Integration: Implementing Enterprise Risk Management and Risk Governance. Lund University.
Morgenson, G. (2020). More Wells Fargo customers say the bank decided to pause their mortgage payments without asking. Retrieved from https://www.nbcnews.com/business/personal-finance/more-wells-fargo-customers-say-bank-decided-pause-their-mortgage-n1234610
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