Stock dividends and their impact on cash and liabilities.?
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Stock dividends would not impact cash or liabilities.  I imagine it would just increase paid in capital and decrease retained earnings.  Just rearranging things.\n\nCash dividends are different, but you didn't ask about that.  Are you sure you're not referring to these?  Because cash dividends would decrease cash and retained earnings.\n\nIf you really have to pick just one, the question is wrong.  Go with decrease cash because there might some filing fees involved or something garbage like that.  Liabilities would be unchanged.\n\nThey really aren't related.  If you can "write-in" no change, do that.  If it's a multiple choice thing, just pick one at random.  It's pretty much a toss-up.  Maybe decrease cash as mentioned above and decrease liabilities.  No real idea.
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Stocks, mutual funds, bonds, etc...
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If the shares you own pay dividend, remain calm and ride it out... they'll recover eventually.\n\nIf the shares you own don't pay dividend, but still worth more than you bought them for, then sell them if the commission fee to sell them doesn't cancel out the profits.\n\nIF the shares you own have got to less than what you paid for them (or the commission fee cancels out the profit).... hold tight until they recover.
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Generally speaking, it should have no impact on the market value of the firm since enterprise value is defined by the following formula: E/V = market value of equity plus market value of net debt (debt minus excess cash). However, it can redistribute the market value of each component in the company's capital structure. \n\nIn repaying the debt with excess cash, the company's liquidity is reduced, but net debt is unchanged. Overall leverage is reduced, which is a positive from a bond holder's perspective, and mildly nuetral to positive from a stockholder's perspective. \n\nIn repaying debt with proceeds of less expensive expensive debt, leverage is unchanged, but it is still a positive from a bond holder's perspective (since interest coverage will likely improve somewhat) and mildly positive from a stockholder's perspective (lower interest expense results in higher net income).
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Shares splits/bonuses are almost always rounded down. \n\nThe terms are always put into the share bonus memorandum filing.
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There are so much fluctuations in the trading of a stock sometimes it's hard to quantify one specific event.  Besides, bonus shares that are issued often is just a very small % of the total shares outstanding, you may or may not see any stock price impact because of that.
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The practical side of dividend adjustment is that charts on the Internet don't adjust for dividends and capital gains reinvestment. For many mutual funds, the distributions can account for very big chunk of the return. \n\nHence, you cannot do meaningful analysis of dividend-paying stocks and mutual funds unless you get adjusted data. Best source (maybe only source) for daily, distribution-adjusted data is http://www.fasttrack.net
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If you pd for the stock and it was sold at a profit you pay capital gains if you pd for the stock and it had no value when you sold it you would have a loss. If you pd nothing and they were worth nothing. Then you have to do nothing. If I knew more I could better answer this. Hope this helps some
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I've done that with what I call 'loose change'.  Sometimes I've got a few dollars sitting around, obviously not going to make a lot of interest and not large enough for something substantial.  If some risky thing has been going down but I still feel it worth holding onto (its kinda fun when you sweat over a $90 stock moving a couple of bucks while a stock selling for less than a dime now goes for a buck or two, and yes, I've had that happen), then making an extra small trade can average down the value of your position.  When the stock starts to tick up for whatever reasons, you now have a lower break-even or profit point.  Again, it is only if you've got a few bucks left not doing anything and at Scottrade for $7 plus a half-point, it doesn't hurt much.  Of course, I also got a couple that are cluttering up my list because it will cost more to sell than they are worth today but that is part of the risk, right?
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In the U S,  tax rates on long term gains are about 1/2 thoses of short term gains.  \n\nThe longer you hold a stock, that is increasing its earnings, the longer you can hopefully accumulate capital gains without paying any taxes on those gains and the longer you will accumulate gains.  \n\nAn example:   one share of MMM purchased on Jan 2, 1970 at an adjusted cost of $2.18 is now worth $79.19,  a 36x increase in 36 years.   The dividend today is a $1.84. That is almost as much dividend as the value of the original purchase.  Of course, putting all this in perspective, today a dollar is worth about $0.25 in 1970 values.
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Basically, the owner of the stock on the record date gets the whole dividend, so theoretically, you could buy the stock and sell it the next day and still get the dividend, but realize that people usually pay less for the stock after it starts trading ex-dividend by the amount of the dividend.
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Say you own a share of stock valued at $100.  If the stock splits 2 for one then you now own 2 shares valued at $50 each.\n\nIf a $100 share of stock pays a dividend of 50 cents then for each share you have the company pays you 50 cents.
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P/E, growth, leverage, price variance, income variance
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The price history for the stock is adjusted for the amount of the split. \nSo if it's a 2 for 1 stock split, the price would be adjusted by half not JUST FOR TODAY'S stock price, but for all the prices going back in time.\n\nIt has no effect on the value of the stock.
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It is a Public Income note - basically a hybrid equity/debt security.  Companies issue them to raise capital, much like a preferred stock.  People buy them for the dividend flow, typically.
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What do want to know? Look at ratio of debt to equity--the more debt the greater the risk if earnings are poor but if earnings are good the equity owner will do very well. the interest on debt must be paid whereas a dividend doesn't.