Which of the Following Statements Is CORRECT

question 26

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

• A) If a company has a 2-for-1 stock split,its stock price should roughly double.
• B) Capital gains earned on shares repurchased are taxed less favorably than dividends,which is why companies typically pay dividends and avoid share repurchases.
• C) Very often,a company's stock price will rise when it announces that it plans to commence a share repurchase program.Such an announcement could lead to a stock price decline,but this does not normally happen.
• D) Stock repurchases increase the number of outstanding shares.
• E) The clientele effect is the best explanation for why companies tend to vary their dividend payments from quarter to quarter.

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Definitions:

Sensorimotor

Refers to a developmental stage in infants where they learn to interact with the world through physical movements and sensory experiences.

Concrete Operational

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where children aged around 7-12 years gain the ability to think logically about concrete events.

Concrete Operations

a stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where children aged 7 to 12 years become capable of logical thought processes but are not yet able to handle abstract reasoning.

Conservation Tasks

Cognitive tests used in developmental psychology that measure a child's ability to understand that certain properties of objects can remain the same despite changes in the object's form or appearance.