dividend payout ratios instead correspond to higher future earnings growth. Examining both listed and delisted firms on the … Australian stock exchange over the period 1989 to 2008, we provide further evidence that the dividend payout ratio is positively …

dividend growth rates of the aggregate stock market. This approach aggregates information contained in the history of price-dividend … ratios and dividend growth rates to predict future returns and dividend growth rates. We find that returns and dividend … growth rates are predictable with R-squared values ranging from 8.2% to 8.9% for returns and 13.9% to 31.6% for dividend …

In contrast to the disappearing dividends view, we predict that variability in dividend payments increases investor … demand for dividend information and analysts respond to this demand by producing informative dividend forecasts. We examine … dividend payers from 16 countries spanning 2000–2013 and find that only 25% of firms exhibit sticky dividends, while the …

We construct a price, dividend, and earnings series for the Industrials sector, the Utilities sector, and the Railroads …

I examine the predictability of dividend cuts based on the time interval between dividend announcement dates using a … large dataset of U.S. firms from 1971 to 2014. The longer the time interval between dividend announcements, the larger the … probability of a cut in the dividend per share, consistent with the view that firms delay the release of bad news …