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1. How do dividends increase shareholder value?
2. Why are investors in the recent past hungry for dividend yielding stocks?
3. How do share buy-backs increase shareholder value?
4. How successful have share buybacks been lately (i.e., how have the stocks performed since the buy-back programs were initiated)?
5. How do stock-splits increase shareholder value?
Do some outside research to answer the following:
6. Find an example of a company that recently increased its dividend, give a brief discussion of the situation, and how the stock has fared since.
7. Find an example of a company that recently decreased its dividend, give a brief discussion of the situation, and how the stock has fared since.
8. Find an example of a company that recently initiated a stock buy-back program, give a brief discussion of the situation, and how the stock has fared since.
9. Find an example of a company that recently split its stock, give a brief discussion of the situation, and how the stock has fared since.
No right or wrong answer for the next question:
10. As an investor, would you prefer a company that pays a dividend or re-invests profit back into the company?