Investors are more concerned with future dividends than historical dividends, so go to ESTIMATES and scroll down

Question:

Investors are more concerned with future dividends than historical dividends, so go to ESTIMATES and scroll down to the “Consensus Estimates” section. Click on the “Available Measures” menu to toggle between earnings per share and dividends per share. How do analysts expect MSFT’s payout policy to behave in the future?

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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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