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Review the 1) dividends for the past three years and 2) capital structure of the company you have been researching for your SLP assignment. Then answer the following questions in a Word document (except for the Excel portion specifically noted). The paper should be 2 pages in length.
1.What has occurred with your selected company’s dividend payout, dividend yield, and dividend per share over the past three years? Do you have any explanations for what has occurred? Also, has this company had any stock splits or stock repurchases in recent years?
2.How does your selected company’s dividend payout, dividend yield, and dividend per share compare with other companies in its industry? Has the company’s dividend strategy been similar to other companies in its industry?
3.Use Excel to plot your selected company’s earnings and dividends over the past three years. Do you notice any patterns? What dividend policies from the background readings best match these patterns?
SLP Assignment Expectations
·Answer the assignment questions directly.
·Stay focused on the precise assignment questions. Do not go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.
·For computational problems, make sure to show your work and explain your steps.
·For short answer/short essay questions, make sure to reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 11-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC Portal.
Explanation & Answer
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Introduction
Currently all over the world companies are under a lot of pressure to be able to attract not
only customers but also investors. Investors are essential in providing the much-needed equity
for a company to be able to finance its operations. In return, investors expect the company to
generate profits for them. One way in which investors end up being compensated by companies
is through dividends. Dividends, in this case, being a portion of an organization's earnings that is
usually paid to a certain class of a company's shareholders. The board of directors decides when
to issue dividends as well as the payout rates.
Coca-Cola Company which is a corporation situated in America that manufactures &
retails nonalcoholic beverages and syrups usually pays quarterly dividends to its shareholders. In
an effort to be able to attract investors, Coca-Cola strives to ensure that dividends paid to
investors keep increasing year after year ("Coca-Cola Co(The)", 2007).
Coca-Cola’s Dividend per share, Dividend yield & Dividend Payout
To begin with, over the past three years i.e. 2015- 2017, Coca-Cola's dividend per share
has increased year after year. This is so sinc...
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