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The Dividend Discount Model (DDM): The Black Sheep of Valuation?

Brian DeChesare

When I started offering financial modeling training , I never expected to get questions about a methodology like the Dividend Discount Model (DDM). Otherwise, the written version follows: Why Use a Dividend Discount Model? The main argument in favor of the DDM is that it best represents what happens in real life when you buy a stock.

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SEC Finalizes New Clawback Rules

Harvard Corporate Governance

– Excludes revisions due to internal reorganizations impacting reportable segment disclosures or changes in capital structure (e.g., stock splits, stock dividends, etc.). . – Excludes “out of period” adjustments (corrections of immaterial errors recorded in the current period). more…).

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Family Business Director’s Reading Roundup

Auto Dealer Valuation Insights

Here at Family Business Director, we are focused on the numbers of family business: measuring and assessing financial performance, establishing dividend policy, setting capital structure, making capital budgeting decisions, and structuring shareholder redemptions.

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Everything about Share Buybacks

Andrew Stolz

companies have distributed more money through buybacks than through dividends. This usually happens when a company is making a deliberate and significant change to its capital structure. One significant benefit of buybacks for a country’s capital markets is that low-yielding, excess cash is returned to investors.

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Boards’ Dilemma: The Compounding Problem Hidden in Share Buyback Execution Products

Reynolds Holding

As a capital allocation decision, share buybacks intersect all three of the main corporate finance activities of investing, financing, and dividends [1]. Buybacks for Financing A company can alter the debt-to-equity ratio of its capital structure by issuing debt and/or buying back shares.

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Review the concept of WACC

Andrew Stolz

Usually, the retail investors or institutional investors would look only for capital gains or regular income in the form of dividends while investing and would not generally look to buy stocks in larger quantities so as to get a controlling stake over the company. It tends to add debt beyond the optimal capital structure.

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What is Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)?

Andrew Stolz

The WACC is the average cost of raising capital from all sources, including equity, common shares, preferred shares, and debt. What Impacts the Weighted Average Cost of Capital? The lower the cost of capital, the higher the present value of future cash flows. What is the Importance of the Weighted Average Cost of Capital?