Stock Essays

The optimal dividend policy of a firm depends on investor’s desire for capital gains as opposed to income, their willingness to forgo dividend now for future returns, and their perception of the risk associated with postponement of returns. However any normative approach to dividend policy intended to be operative under …

Gregory D. Wasson is the president of Walgreens, and CEO effective since February 1, 2009. Wasson joined the company as a pharmacy intern in 1980 while attending Purdue University’s school of pharmacy, and managed stores in the Houston area before being promoted to a district manager position in 1986. Wasson …

I. HISTORY The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), also known as the Philippine stock exchange incorporated (PSEi) is the national stock exchange of the country, began 85 years ago, on August 8, 1927. It was created from the two stock exchange of the country which are the Manila Stock Exchange or …

The Gordon Model is particularly useful since it includes the ability to price in the growth rate of dividends over the long term. It is important to remember that the price result of the Constant Dividend Growth Model assumes that the growth rate of the dividends over time will remain …

When the additional shares are allotted to the existing shareholders without receiving any additional payment from them, it is known as issue of bonus shares. Bonus shares are allotted by capitalizing the reserves and surplus. Issue of bonus shares results in the conversion of the company’s profits into share capital. …

Bharti Airtel and Zain Africa recently announced signing of the definitive merger agreement, wherein Bharti will acquire African operations of Zain Group. The deal was valued at an enterprise value of USD 10.7 billion or on an 8.2x EBITDA Multiple. Goldman Sachs has invested USD 450 million in online social …

An understanding of the difference in stock price exposures across markets helps to determine equilibrium premium and asset allocation of international portfolio. This paper is based on cross sectional study of various developed and developing countries for the year 2006,2007 and 2008. Eight developed countries viz.USA, UK, Australia, France, Germany, …

Introduction This report illustrates an analysis of the strategy our team is about to follow, and the success measures we had chosen to reflect our strategy, with exhaustive explanation of the reasons to choose such a strategy and success measures. We will then give an implementation planning concerning four basic …

1. Roche is seeking to acquire the 44% of Genentech that it doesn’t own yet because it would create new opportunities for Roche and the ability to work together on a much broader scale. Also, Roche’s managers were highly aware that in 2015 their product licensing agreement with Genentech was …

China is the world’s important jewelry producer and consumer. Due to historical reasons, China’s jewelry industry developed a little later, and started in the early 1980 s. In recent years, because of rapid development of national economy and the improvement of residents’ disposable income, China’s jewelry industry presents a high-speed …