Companies sometimes consider stock splits to bring down the price so that the stock attracts more purchases.
Consider the following case:
Tolbotics Inc. currently has 10,000 shares of common stock outstanding. Its management believes that its current stock price of $110 per share is too high. The company is planning to conduct stock splits in the ratio of 3 for 1 as described in the animation.
If Tolbotics Inc. declares a 3-for-1 stock split, the price of the company’s stock after the split, assuming that the total value of the firm’s stock remains the same after the split, will be .
Fuzzy Muffin Manufacturing Company is one of Tolbotics’s leading competitors. Fuzzy Muffin Manufacturing Company’s market intelligence research team shares Tolbotics’s plans of announcing a stock split, influencing the distribution policy makers. Consequently, executives at Fuzzy Muffin decide to offer stock dividends to its shareholders.
A stock dividend is another way of keeping the stock price from going too high. Fuzzy Muffin currently has 1,900,000 shares of common stock outstanding.
If the firm pays a 5% stock dividend, how many shares will the firm issue to its existing shareholders?
99,750 shares
95,000 shares
104,500 shares
90,250 shares
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