Companies buy their own shares of stock for employee stock option plans, to support the stock price, to increase earnings per share, and to make a hostile takeover more difficult. Explain.

When it comes to Financial Business Management, discuss whether the statements below are true or false? On average, acquisitions destroy shareholder value. The liquidation value of a company’s shares always places a floor under its stock price. An unusually low stock price in managements’ eyes encourages management to take the company private in a management buyout.

Which of the following statements is true? Group of answer choices a. Dividend payments are attractive to executives who hold many executive stock options that were awarded to them by their firms b.Executives and other insiders benefit most by being able to tender their shares in an open market repurchase since they usually are privy to information that is not available to the general public                                                 c.Empirical research suggests that small, retail investors prefer stock repurchases to dividend payments d. a firm does not pay dividends, some institutional investors are prohibited from investing it the firmʹs equity

It is generally argued that the takeover constraint : Deters management from engaging in opportunistic behavior. Deters management from considering acquiring other companies. Deters management from declaring dividends. Deters management from increasing a firm’s level of borrowing.