CORP FINC Session 2 (MOOC) Fall Textbook: Chapter 19

The Finance Framework

Cash Dividends…

1) Dividends are sticky…

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2) Dividends follow earnings…

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3) Are effected by tax laws

Dividend Tax versus Capital Gains tax

Dividend and Taxes

Dividend= Pb-Pa?

Empirical Evidence…

4) More and more firms buy back shares instead of paying out dividends

Updated to 2014

5) There are differences between countries

Updated…

Measures of Dividend Policy Dividend Payout = Dividends/ Net Income Measures the percentage of earnings that the company pays in dividends Note: If the net income is negative, the payout ratio cannot be computed. Dividend Yield = Dividends per share/ Stock price Measures the return that an investor can make from dividends alone Becomes part of the expected return on the investment

Pay Out Ratios in the US (2010)

Dividend Yields in the US (2010)

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In relation to growth

Dividends and the life cycle of s business…

The balanced viewpoint If a company has excess cash, and few good investment opportunities (NPV>0), returning money to stockholders (dividends or stock repurchases) is good. If a company does not have excess cash, and/or has several good investment opportunities (NPV>0), returning money to stockholders (dividends or stock purchases) is bad.

Ex dividend and Record dates As you can see by the diagram, if you buy on the ex-dividend date (Tuesday), which is only two business days before the date of record, you will not receive the dividend because your name will not appear in the company's record books until Friday. If you want to buy the stock and receive the dividend, you need to buy it on Monday. (When the stock is trading with the dividend the term cum dividend is used). But, if you want to sell the stock and still receive the dividend, you need to sell on or after Tuesday the 6th.cum dividend

Dividends are good….but: Div Yield= a+b(Beta)+c(Age)+d(Income)+e(Tax diff) VariableCoefficientImplies Constant4.22% Beta Coefficient Higher Beta stocks pay lower dividends Age/ Firms with older investors pay more dividends Income/ Firms with higher income investors pay less dividends Tax Differential If income is taxed at a higher rate than capital gains the firm pay less dividends

Dividends are good? Three “good” reasons for paying dividends… 1. Clientele Effect: The investors in your company like dividends. 2. The Signaling Story: Dividends can be signals to the market that you believe that you have good cash flow prospects in the future. 3. The Wealth Appropriation Story: Dividends are one way of transferring wealth from lenders to equity investors (this is good for equity investors but bad for lenders)

Dividend Matrix applied…

Peer Group analysis Disney…

Peer Group analysis Deutsche Bank

Going beyond averages… Looking at the market Regressing dividend yield and payout against expected growth across all US companies in January 2009 yields: PYT = Dividend Payout Ratio = Dividends/Net Income YLD = Dividend Yield = Dividends/Current Price ROE = Return on Equity EGR = Expected growth rate in earnings over next 5 years (analyst estimates) STD = Standard deviation in equity values INS = Insider holdings as a percent of outstanding stock

Applied to Disney… To illustrate the applicability of the market regression in analyzing the dividend policy of Disney, we estimate the values of the independent variables in the regressions for the firm. Insider holdings at Disney (as % of outstanding stock) = 7.70% Standard Deviation in Disney stock prices = 19.30% Disney’s ROE = 13.05% Expected growth in earnings per share (Analyst estimates) = 14.50% Substituting into the regression equations for the dividend payout ratio and dividend yield, we estimate a predicted payout ratio: Predicted Payout = – (.1305) (.1930) – (.145) = Predicted Yield = – (.1930) – (.077) – (.145) =.0172 Based on this analysis, Disney with its dividend yield of 1.67% and a payout ratio of approximately 20% is paying too little in dividends. This analysis, however, fails to factor in the huge stock buybacks made by Disney over the last few years.

Session 2 Assignments: We made 5 statements about dividends test the first 4 for your company! Draw conclusions. Measure pay out ratio and dividend yield for your company over the last at least 10 years and compare with it’s peer group (what is your conclusion? Show your data) Where is your company in the dividend matrix? Conclude… We performed a market regression January 2009 and drew conclusions on Disney; do the same for your company (see example Disney)