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1 Corporate Finance Dividend Policy Javier Estrada Spring, 2014 1. Introduction Limitations of the analysis 2. ConEd & Telefónica Circumstances and decisions 3. Other Important Issues Clienteles Growth opportunities Signals Smoothing Taxes Share repurchases Javier Estrada IESE Business School Barcelona Spain MBA CorpFin Spring, 2014 Introduction Dividend policy is not a ‘number‐crunching’ topic This implies that solutions/decisions are much more open to interpretation than in previous cases Dividend policy is the issue we know the least in Corporate Finance An optimal policy may be difficult to determine There are good reasons to pay/avoid dividends Some investors want/avoid dividends Ideally, what is the optimal dividend policy? DPR such that the share price is maximized DPR for which investors are willing to pay the most But there is no model to determine such DPR
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Page 1: Corporate Finance Dividend Policy · 2019-05-07 · 1 Corporate Finance Dividend Policy Javier Estrada Spring, 2014 1. Introduction • Limitations of the analysis 2. ConEd & Telefónica

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CorporateFinanceDividendPolicy

JavierEstradaSpring,2014

1.Introduction• Limitationsoftheanalysis

2.ConEd&Telefónica• Circumstancesanddecisions

3.OtherImportantIssues• Clienteles• Growthopportunities• Signals• Smoothing• Taxes• Sharerepurchases

JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

IntroductionDividendpolicyisnota‘number‐crunching’topic Thisimpliesthatsolutions/decisionsaremuchmoreopentointerpretationthaninpreviouscases

Dividendpolicyistheissueweknowtheleast inCorporateFinance Anoptimalpolicymaybedifficulttodetermine

• Therearegoodreasonstopay/avoiddividends• Someinvestorswant/avoiddividends

Ideally,whatistheoptimaldividendpolicy?• DPRsuchthatthesharepriceismaximizedDPRforwhichinvestorsarewillingtopaythemost

• ButthereisnomodeltodeterminesuchDPR

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

IntroductionWhatwedoknow Basictrade‐off

• Reinvestingv.Payingout Empiricalregularities

• Dividendsmoothing• Relationshipbetweendividendyieldandincome

Relevantvariablestoconsider• Environment(Macro/Industry/Company)• Clienteles(Whatdoshareholderswant/expect?)• Growthopportunities(Thecriticaltrade‐off)• Signals(Theimplicitmessageconveyed)• Dividendhistory(Smoothing)• Taxes

JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

OtherRelevantIssuesClienteles Companiescanusetheirdividendpolicyto…

• please theirclientele• target aclientele(Telefónica)

Critical(cash)trade‐off Reinvesting(andgrowing) Payingout Go

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

OtherRelevantIssuesSignalsWhatinformationdoesmanagementconveywithitsdividendpolicy?• ConEd Thecompanyisindeeptrouble(Thestockpricetanked)

• Telefónica Thecompanyhasgreatgrowthopportunities(Thestockpricesoared)

• Moregenerally Go

JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

OtherRelevantIssuesSmoothing Dividendsaresticky(lessvolatilethanearnings) Go

Model(Lintner)• DPSt =α⋅(TDPR)(EPSt)+(1–α)⋅DPSt‐1 TDPR:Targetdividendpayoutratio α:Adjustmentrate

• Notethat… ifα=0⇒ DPSt =DPSt‐1(Dividendsareconstant) ifα=1⇒ DPSt =(TDPR)(EPSt‐1)(DividendsarejustasvolatileasEPS)

• Empirically,LintnerfoundTDPR=50%andα=0.3DPSt =(0.15)⋅EPSt +(0.7)⋅DPStHencesmoothingissubstantial

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

OtherRelevantIssuesTaxes Dividendsareusuallytaxedatthepersonaltaxrate

• Forwealthyindividualsthepersonaltaxratetypicallyismuchhigherthanthecapitalgainstaxrate Go

Dividendsversussharerepurchases Asdiscussed,dividendstendtobesmoothed Buybacksarefarmorevolatile/unpredictable Go

JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

Appendix

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

CriticalTrade‐Off

JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

CriticalTrade‐Off

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

Signals

JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

Signals

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

Signals

JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

Signals

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

Signals

JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

Signals

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

Signals

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

Smoothing

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

Taxes

JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

Taxes

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

Taxes

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

ShareRepurchases

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

ShareRepurchases

JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

ShareRepurchases

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JavierEstrada

IESEBusinessSchool

BarcelonaSpain

MBACorpFinSpring,2014

ShareRepurchases

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