Dividend yield

Antwerp’s SCOB database were used to investigate if stock returns have any relationship with variables, such as size, beta, dividend yield, and risks. The sample covered periods of 1873 to 1914. Using Fama-MacBeth regression model, the study finds that average stock returns have no relationship with size, risk, and beta, but establishes weak relationship between dividend yield and stock returns. The study finds strong momentum in the sample data. The results provide some very important…

transportation is the main industry the company operates. ii) Controlling ownership interest is defined as an individual who posses at least 50% of the company’s share. They can manage and control the company, for example choosing managers and assigning dividends. Vanderbilt tried to gain controlling ownership interest in the Erie Railroad Company. iii) Convertible bonds can be converted into a company’s share, equity or stock in the future. They are more advantageous and beneficial for…

Despite the passing and implementation of specific laws in the United States, there are organizations and individuals who fail to ensure compliance. One such law was officially approved in 1967; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA). This law prohibits age discrimination by explicitly directing employers, labor organizations, and employment agencies to promote employment of older persons based on their ability rather than age (The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967,…

“Lowell’s Mill Girls.” Name: Jazmin D. Maten Date: 12//2016 Subject: HIS 121 The Lowell Mill was founded and was located in Lowell, Massachusetts. It was built in a planned town to produce textiles named in honour of Francis Cabot Lowell in 1820. The Lowell factories employed at some estimates more than 8,000 textile workers, commonly known as mill girls or factory girls. The age of the workers must be between fifteen to thirty-five. Offering $1.75- $3.00 dollars a…

money by doing absolutely nothing. Similarly, each of the sources of passive income has this crucial advantage. It is called compound interest. Here, compound interest refers to this gradual increase in money. In financial investments such as dividend funds, however, it works a lit- tle differently. Through compound interest, you will be able to see an exponential increase in your principal amount. It is the art of using your existing money to make more money. While a bank may provide you…

Adding the risk-free government securities would result in a lower beta for the new portfolio. The new portfolio beta will be a weighted average of the individual security betas in the portfolio; the presence of the risk-free securities would lower that weighted average. q. The comment is not correct. Although the respective standard deviations and expected returns for the two securities under consideration are equal, the covariances between each security and the original portfolio…

that mutual fund invest in market tradable. Thus, when the market interest rates come down as in the current scenario, the debt mutual funds get much higher bond yield. The average return from the top 15 debt mutual funds in the last one year has been 25.96 per cent. Risk When the interest rates go up in the general market, the bond yield comes down, leading to capital erosion when debt instruments are traded. This can lead to very low or even negative returns from debt instruments. So no…

The assigned book for this course is The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day, by John C. Maxwell. In this book, Maxwell gives a leadership principle and then supplies a relevant Bible supported example to give life to the principle being introduced. The assignment for this week was to read chapters 1, 2, and 3. This paper will summarize what the author discussed in these chapters. The first leadership principle is found in chapter 1, “The Law of the Lid.” In this chapter,…

This aligns with the 1 day increase in the Average days sales uncollected (to 53.6) allowing customers more time to pay their bills. Likewise with Inventory turnover, Orica's inventory turnover increased by 2 days (to (XXX), it should be noted that compared to the industry average, Orica has a much shorter turnover rate, pointing to why they may not be as averse to relaxing their credit policy). This indicates that Orica needs to access its inventory to ensure it does not hold obsolete…

broader performance index than the DAX), we constructed a market model, which estimates expected returns of TK’s stock. We chose the total return index of TK, since it measures performance more accurately and also helps us to offset the effect of the dividend payment that occurs at t(1), the day after the AGM of TK, which would have distorted our significance test. The estimation period used were the trading days of the year prior to the announcement t(-250,-1). The event window of t(0,3) was…