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Dividend Policy

Definition: The Dividend Policy is a financial decision that refers to the proportion of the firm’s earnings to be paid out to the shareholders. Here, a firm decides on the portion of revenue that is to be distributed to the shareholders as dividends or to be ploughed back into the firm.

The amount of earnings to be retained back within the firm depends upon the availability of investment opportunities. To evaluate the efficiency of an opportunity, the firm assesses a relationship between the rate of return on investments “r” and the cost of capital “K.”

As per the dividend models, some practitioners believe that the shareholders are not concerned with the firm’s dividend policy and can realize cash by selling their shares if required. While the others believed that, dividends are relevant and have a bearing on the share prices of the firm. This gave rise to the following models:

Dividend Policy

  1. Miller and Modigliani Hypothesis- Dividend Irrelevance Theory
  2. Walter’s Model – Dividend Relevance Theory
  3. Gordon’s Model- Dividend Relevance Theory

As long as returns are more than the cost, a firm will retain the earnings to finance the projects, and the shareholders will be paid the residual dividends i.e. the earnings left after financing all the potential investments. Thus, the dividend payout fluctuates from year to year, depending on the availability of investment opportunities.

Related terms:

  1. Miller and Modigliani theory on Dividend Policy
  2. Walter’s Model
  3. Dividend Decision
  4. Gordon’s Model
  5. Types of Dividend

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  1. Khem Raj says

    April 21, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    Wants to know who is eligible for getting the dividend fund.

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    • Megha M says

      April 21, 2016 at 4:58 pm

      The shareholders are entitled to get the dividends. They are the owners of the company who invest capital in some definite proportion at the time of the commencement of the business.

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