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The Securities and Exchange Commission has determined that the number of companies listed on the NYSE declaring bankruptcy is approximately a Poisson distribution with a mean of 2.6 per month.Find the probability that exactly 4 bankruptcies occur next month.


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Dividend Yield

A financial proportion demonstrating how a company's annual dividend payout stands in comparison to its stock price.

Stock Price

The cost of purchasing a share of a company, which fluctuates based on demand and supply in the market.

Constant Annual Dividend

A dividend payment that a company commits to distribute to its shareholders at a steady rate each year.

Rate of Return

An indicator of the financial success or failure of an investment, calculated by dividing the profit (or loss) by the investment’s initial cost.

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