Calculate three day return earned by your firm

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Corporate Finance Assignment

The company for my assignment in ResMed Inc (RMD). Pretty sure any information needed about the company can be found on Yahoo Finance as you probably know.

(a) Market reacts positively to dividend increases and negatively dividend decreases. Three explanations are provided for this notion.

i. Information content (signalling) hypothesis,

ii. Free cash flow hypothesis

iii. Clientele effect

Discuss these hypotheses related to dividend policy.

(b) Briefly discuss five reasons for companies to choose repurchases rather dividends under a classical tax system.

(c) i. Identify (interim or final) dividend change announcement using "dividend history from the DatAnalysis Premium Database" for the company allocated to you for the assignment 2.

ii. Calculate three day return earned by your firm for the period from the day before the announcement continuing through the day after the announcement date; and two day return earned by your firm for the period from the day of the announcement to the day after the announcement date.

iii. Calculate the market return for the corresponding periods in (ii).

iv. Calculate the excess: (ii) - (iii)

v. Check the results for any other two students in your tutorial class and report that result in your assignment 2.

vi. Discuss the relevant theory with the findings in (iv) and (v).

Step 1 -

A dividend change is defined as the relative difference from the previous year's level.

Interim dividend change = interim dividend per share in year t minus interim dividend per share in year t-1.
Final dividend change = Final dividend per share in year t minus Final dividend per share in year t-1.

Step 2 -

Announcement date for the dividend change can be identified from "ASX announcements from the DatAnalysis Premium Database".

Announcement date for interim dividend change: use the announcement date of half yearly report

Announcement date for final dividend change: use the announcement date of preliminary final report

Select "ASX announcements"
Select "Search option - Click here to refine your search by ASX Announcement Type and/or text search"
For Announcement Type: select periodic reports
For Sub-Announcement Type: select preliminary - final statement for final dividend; half yearly report interim dividend change
Specify the date range

Attachment:- Assignment File.rar

Reference no: EM131670170

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len1670170

10/6/2017 5:00:27 AM

The company for my assignment in ResMed Inc (RMD). Pretty sure any information needed about the company can be found on Yahoo Finance as you probably know. Please ignore v. and vi. parts of Part c from the questions as that doesn't need to be done. Also from my excel attachment this was form a previous assignment, I am not sure if it has any relevance to this one but since its the same company I have aded it (probably would only need to look at the outputs graph part if anything). Thank you so much and I hope someone can be of help! Need to be submitted to the tutor, in class, in Week 11.

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