Compare this with other firms in the same industry. To see how MSFT stacks up against its

Question:

Compare this with other firms in the same industry. To see how MSFT stacks up against its peers, select PEERS>OVERVIEWS>PER SHARE DATA to get MSFT’s peers’ last annual dividends. Accessing PEER>OVERVIEWS>ABSOLUTE RANKINGS will give their dividend yields. You can also get this information from the VALUATION COMPARISON in this same section. Has MSFT behaved differently from its peers or have there been industrywide shifts?

Access the Thomson ONE problems through the ThomsonNOW Web site. Use the Thomson ONE—Business School Edition online database to work this chapter’s questions.

Microsoft’s Dividend Policy

In this chapter’s opening vignette, we discuss Microsoft’s decision to establish a dividend payout policy in 2003. Let’s find out what has happened to Microsoft’s (MSFT) dividend policy since the time of this announcement. We can address this issue by relying on the data that are provided to you in Thomson One.

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...

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