Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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ISBN: 9780134083278
Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 17, Problem 7P
Natsam Corporation has $250 million of excess cash. The firm has no debt and 500 million shares outstanding with a current market price of $15 per share. Natsam’s board has decided to pay out this cash as a one-time dividend.
- a. What is the ex-dividend price of a share in a perfect capital market?
- b. If the board instead decided to use the cash to do a one-time share repurchase, in a perfect capital market what is the price of the shares once the repurchase is complete?
- c. In a perfect capital market, which policy, in part a or b, makes investors in the firm better off?
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Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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