Results of a Study on Dividend Increases Found That an Announcement

question 55

Multiple Choice

Results of a study on dividend increases found that an announcement of a dividend increase produced, on average,

• A)a 1.5% decrease in price.
• B)a 200 basis point increase in price.
• C)a 4% increase in price.
• D)a 25 basis point increase in price.

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Definitions:

Measures of Dispersion

Statistical indicators that describe the spread or variability of a data set.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a given set of data.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset, providing a measure of data dispersion.

Variance

A statistical measure that quantifies the spread or dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value.