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Stock Versus Cash Dividends : Signaling or Catering
Twite, Garry J. - 2012
This paper examines why firms choose to pay stock dividends. Using a sample of listed Chinese firms, we find that younger, more profitable firms, with lower leverage, high levels of retained earnings, private ownership prior to listing and investing more in fixed assets are more likely to pay...
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What Do Dividend Reductions Signal?
Jensen, Gerald R. - 2011
Dividend reductions have long been considered a "last resort" action for firm managers. Managerial reluctance to reduce dividends emanates from the view that dividend drops signal managerial pessimism regarding future earnings. Contrary to expectations, studies show that earnings rebound...
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Share Price Reaction to Dividend Announcements : Empirical Evidence on the Signaling Model from the Oslo Stock Exchange
Capstaff, John - 2017
This study tests the signaling theory of dividends by investigating the stock price reaction to dividend announcements … from the U.S. and the U.K., and where the motivation to use dividends as a signaling mechanism appears to be stronger. The … announcements that are followed by permanent cash flow increases. This evidence provides modest support for the signaling theory of …
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Signaling Hypothesis and Size Anomaly in Indian Stock Market
Marisetty, Nagendra; Madasu, Pardhasaradhi - 2021
The dividend signaling hypothesis means that dividend change announcements send signals to the market about its … Switzer (2010). Finally, we concluded that the dividend signaling hypothesis and market capitalization or size effect anomaly …
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Investment as the Opportunity Cost of Dividend Signaling
Kaplan, Zachary - 2020
We provide evidence that firms with weak investment opportunities (those whose current earnings justify a greater valuation than firms with strong investment opportunities) signal their permanent earnings level through their dividends. In the cross-section, we show that both dividend levels and...
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Dividend announcements reconsidered: Dividend changes versus dividend surprises
Andres, Christian; Betzer, André; van den Bongard, Inga; … - 2012
flow signaling hypothesis and dividend clientele effects. We further find that the price reaction to dividend surprises is …
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Dividend announcements reconsidered dividend changes versus dividend surprises
Andres, Christian; Betzer, André; van den Bongard, Inga; … - 2011
dividend signaling hypothesis and no support for either the free cash flow hypothesis or the rent extraction hypothesis. …
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Institutional shareholding and information content of dividend surprises : re-examining the dynamics in dividend-reappearance era
Amin, Abu S.; Dutta, Shantanu; Saadi, Samir; Vora, Premal P. - In: The journal of corporate finance : contracting, … 31 (2015), pp. 152-170
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Share price behaviour around dividend announcements in Pakistan
Khan, Naimat U.; Burton, Bruce G.; Power, David M. - In: Afro-Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting : AAJFA 6 (2016) 4, pp. 351-373
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Does dividend announcement generate market signal? : evidence from Pakistan
Chaudhary, Ghulam Mujtaba; Hashmi, Shujahat Haider; … - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 6 (2016) 1, pp. 65-72
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