Suppose you bought 100 shares of stock at an initial price of $37 per share. The stock

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Suppose you bought 100 shares of stock at an initial price of $37 per share. The stock paid a dividend of $0.28 per share during the following year, and the share price at the end of the year was $41. Compute your total dollar return on this investment. Does your answer change if you keep the stock instead of selling it? Why or why not?

Dividend
A dividend is a distribution of a portion of company’s earnings, decided and managed by the company’s board of directors, and paid to the shareholders. Dividends are given on the shares. It is a token reward paid to the shareholders for their...