Dividend puzzle

Dividend puzzle

The dividend puzzle is a concept in finance in which companies that pay dividends are rewarded by investors with higher valuations, even though, according to many economists, it should not matter to investors whether a firm pays dividends or not. The reasoning goes that dividends, from the investor’s point of view, should have no effect on the process of valuing equity because the investor already owns the firm and, thus, he/she should be indifferent to either getting the dividends or having them re-invested in the firm.

The puzzle evolved from the Modigliani-Miller theorems of 1959 and 1961.

The reasons for the dividend puzzle have been attributed to a wide range of factors, including, among others, uncertainties, psychological/behavioral economics issues, tax-related matters and asymmetric information.

See also

  • Dividend investing

References

  • Ruben D. Cohen (2002) “The Relationship Between the Equity Risk Premium, Duration and Dividend Yield [http://rdcohen.50megs.com/ERPabstract.htm download,” Wilmott Magazine, pp 84–97, November issue.

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