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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 4000 shares of Omicron stock and that Omicron uses the entire $50 million to pay a special dividend.Suppose you are unhappy with Omicron's decision and would have preferred that Omicron used the excess cash to repurchase stock.Detail exactly how you could undo the dividend in a way that will provide you with the same combination of cash and stock that you would have received if Omicron had not paid the special dividend.

Understand the concept of expected value with perfect information and its application.

Apply decision-making criteria (maximax, maximin, equally likely, and expected monetary value) under different conditions of uncertainty and risk.

Calculate and understand the concept of expected monetary value (EMV) for different decision scenarios.

Distinguish between different decision-making criteria and understand their practical applications.

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Definitions:

Type I Error

The error that occurs when a true null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data used to make a decision whether to reject the null hypothesis in hypothesis testing.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data during hypothesis testing, used to determine the probability of observing the sample data under the null hypothesis.

Null Hypothesis

A default statement that there is no significant effect or difference, subject to testing against an alternative hypothesis.