Dividend Payout
The Wei Corporation expects next year's net income to be $15 million. The firm's debt ratio is currently 45%. Wei has $10 million of profitable investment opportunities, and it wishes to maintain its existing debt ratio. According to the residual distribution model (assuming all payments are in the form of dividends), how large should Wei's dividend payout ratio be next year? Round your answer to two decimal places.
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A residual dividend is a dividend policy company management uses to fund capital expenditures with available earnings before paying dividends to shareholders.
Expected Net Income next year = $15mil
Company sees an opportunity of $10 mil. In order to maintain the same capital structure, this would be 45% funded by debt and remaining from equity.
=> $4.5 mil would be coming from debt and $5.5 mil from equity.
$5.5 mil from equity would be used from net income, and the remaining amount would be paid as dividends. So, dividends would be $9.5 mil.
Dividend Payout ratio = Dividends payment/Net Income = 9.5/15 = 63.33%
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