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A Brief Analysis on Dividend Payout Vs Promoters Share in Corporate Firms

M. Thaiyalnayaki, G. Divakara Reddy

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In corporate firms ownership is different from management, ownership held by shareholders. Corporate governance in India based on shareholder democracy, hence decisions ultimately influenced by largest shareholders. In corporate parlance the word Dividend is widely used to compare and estimate the performance of a firm. Firms are generally free to select the level of dividend they wish to pay to holders of ordinary shares, although factors such as legal requirements, debt covenants and the availability of cash resources impose some limitation on this decision. Most of the companies in India started and mentored by Promoters. Generally promoters have more than twenty percent. This paper mainly focused to compare returns of different companies based on their promoters share holding. Here we are attempting to find relation among promoters share, EPS, Dividend Yield percentage etc. using various qualitative and quantitative analysis. It is very much useful for investors in taking investment decisions.

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In corporate firms ownership is different from management, ownership held by shareholders. Corporate governance in India based on shareholder democracy, hence decisions ultimately influenced by largest shareholders. In corporate parlance the word Dividend is widely used to compare and estimate the performance of a firm. Firms are generally free to select the level of dividend they wish to pay to holders of ordinary shares, although factors such as legal requirements, debt covenants and the availability of cash resources impose some limitation on this decision. Most of the companies in India started and mentored by Promoters. Generally promoters have more than twenty percent. This paper mainly focused to compare returns of different companies based on their promoters share holding. Here we are attempting to find relation among promoters share, EPS, Dividend Yield percentage etc. using various qualitative and quantitative analysis. It is very much useful for investors in taking investment decisions.

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In corporate firms ownership is different from management, ownership held by shareholders. Corporate governance in India based on shareholder democracy, hence decisions ultimately influenced by largest shareholders. In corporate parlance the word Dividend is widely used to compare and estimate the performance of a firm. Firms are generally free to select the level of dividend they wish to pay to holders of ordinary shares, although factors such as legal requirements, debt covenants and the availability of cash resources impose some limitation on this decision. Most of the companies in India started and mentored by Promoters. Generally promoters have more than twenty percent. This paper mainly focused to compare returns of different companies based on their promoters share holding. Here we are attempting to find relation among promoters share, EPS, Dividend Yield percentage etc. using various qualitative and quantitative analysis. It is very much useful for investors in taking investment decisions.

Key concepts: Dividend payout ratio, Dividend, Promoter, Business, Mathematics, Dividend policy, Monetary economics, Economics

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