Chapter 13 dividend
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| Dividends | cash distributions made to stockholders from the firm's earnings
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| optimal dividend policy | strikes a balance between current dividends and future growth and maximizes the firms stock price
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| Dividend irrelevance thoery | states the firms dividend policy has no effect on either or cost of capital
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| dividend relevance theory | theory that the value of the firm is affected by the dividend policy.
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| information content(signaling) hypothesis | the theory that investors regard dividend changes as signals of mgmt earnings forecasts
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| Clientele effect | to attract the type of investor who likes its dividend policy
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| Free cash flow hypothesis | All else is equal, the firm should distribute any earningsthat cannot be reinvested at a rate at least greater then the investors required rate.
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| residual dividend policy | Dividend only paid when earnings are greater than what is needed to finance the equity portion of the firm's optimal budget for the year.
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| stable,predicitable dividends | payment of a specific dividend each year, or periodically increasing dividend
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| constant payout ratio | payment of a constant percentage of earnings as dividends each year
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| extra dividend | a supplement dividend paid in years when a firm has excess funds to distribute
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| Declaration Date | The day the dividend becomes a Liability
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| Holder-of-record-Date | The date the company determine who recieves the dividend
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| Ex-Dividend Date | The date dividende stop, New purchasters dont receive dividends
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| Payment Date | The Date the firm makes the dividend Payment
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| Dividned re investment Plan (DRIP) | Enables stockholders to automatically reinvest dividends recieved back into the stock of the paying firm.
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| Stock Split | A action taken by a firm to increase the # of shares outstanding which decrease the per share stock price.
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| Stock Dividend | dividends paid as additional shares of stock instead of cash
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