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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 Omicron uses the entire $50 million in excess cash to pay a special dividend.Omicron's ex-dividend price is closest to:

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Conditional CAPM

An extension of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) that allows for the beta coefficient to change depending on economic conditions or time.

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Returns on an investment that are based on observed, historical real-world data rather than theoretical or expected outcomes.

Conventional CAPM

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