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Omicron Technologies has $50 million in excess cash and no debt.The firm expects to generate additional free cash flows of $40 million per year in subsequent years and will pay out these future free cash flows as regular dividends.Omicron's unlevered cost of capital is 10% and there are 10 million shares outstanding.Omicron's board is meeting to decide whether to pay out its $50 million in excess cash as a special dividend or to use it to repurchase shares of the firm's stock.
-Assume that you own 2500 shares of Omicron stock and that Omicron uses the entire $50 million to repurchase shares.Suppose you are unhappy with Omicron's decision and would prefer that Omicron used the excess cash to pay a special dividend.The number of shares that you would have to sell in order to receive the same amount of cash as if Omicron paid the special dividend is closest to:

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