Big Industries has the following market-value balance sheet. The stock currently sells for $20 a share, and there are 1,000 shares outstanding. The firm will either pay a $1 per share dividend or repurchase $1,000 worth of stock. Ignore taxes       Assets   Liabilities and Equity Cash $ 2,000 Debt $10,000 Fixed assets 28,000 Equity 20,000   What will be the subsequent price per share if the firm pays a dividend? What will be the subsequent price per share if the firm repurchases stock? If total earnings of the firm are $2,000 a year, find earnings per share if the firm pays a dividend.

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Big Industries has the following market-value balance sheet. The stock currently sells for $20 a share, and there are 1,000 shares outstanding. The firm will either pay a $1 per share dividend or repurchase $1,000 worth of stock. Ignore taxes

 

 

 

Assets

 

Liabilities and Equity

Cash

$ 2,000

Debt

$10,000

Fixed assets

28,000

Equity

20,000

 

  1. What will be the subsequent price per share if the firm pays a dividend?
  2. What will be the subsequent price per share if the firm repurchases stock?
  3. If total earnings of the firm are $2,000 a year, find earnings per share if the firm pays a dividend.

 

  1. Now find earnings per share if the firm repurchases stock.
  2. Find the price-earnings ratio if the firm pays a dividend.
  3. Find the price-earnings ratio if the firm repurchases stock.

 

  1. Adherents of the “dividends-are-good” school sometimes point to the fact that stocks with high dividend payout ratios tend to sell at above-average price-earnings multiples. Is Big Industries’ P/E ratio higher if it pays a dividend?
  2. Looking back at your answers to parts (a) to (f), do you think that the difference in P/E supports the “dividends-are-good” c
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