Within the sphere of financial management for Nigerian Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), the dividend payout ratio stands as …, macroeconomic influences, and mergers and acquisitions on the dividend payout ratio of five selected DMBs. Secondary data collected … regression, and diagnostic tests like Hausman test were employed for data analysis. Results showed that profitability, liquidity …

, negative relationship with current and past profitability; and two, positive relationship with past dividends. This provides … empirical evidence to put forward strong support to Pecking Order Theory (POT) in context of profitability and dividends …

technology sector globally. The measure used in this study ROA, ROE, ROIC, ATO, profitability, debt to equity ratio, dividend …

optimal dynamic control problem is characterized by two stochastic state variables: the equity value, and profitability (ROA …) of the _rm. According to the empirical evidence, we let profitability follow a mean reverting process. The problem is … solved in a quasiexplicit form by computing both the optimal dividend and the optimal debt. Finally, we calibrate the model …