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A person buys a share for $ 50 and sells it for $ 52 after a [#permalink] New post 28 Nov 2003, 23:54
A person buys a share for $ 50 and sells it for $ 52 after a year. What is the total profit made by him from the share?
(I) A company pays annual dividend
(II) The rate of dividend is 25%

The official answer is C.
Dont we have to take the face value of the share into consideration??

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Re: face value?? [#permalink] New post 29 Nov 2003, 00:06
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A person buys a share for $ 50 and sells it for $ 52 after a year. What is the total profit made by him from the share?
(I) A company pays annual dividend
(II) The rate of dividend is 25%

The official answer is C.
Dont we have to take the face value of the share into consideration??

Pls explain ur answers??


You are correct that the you cannot get the answer to the question "as it is written".

In practice, the dividends for common stock are typicaly not quoted by X% per share, but rather in $$ per share simply because the face value of the stock is essentially meaningless once the stock is traded. The dividend could also have a %yield, but you would have to specify the exact date/time of that yield as it is calculated from the price at that instant. Since the dividend is typically set by the board and not subject to fluctuatation by some other metric, it is quotes almost universally in $ per share.
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 [#permalink] New post 01 Dec 2003, 23:20
The answer is C.

50 bucks is what he will earn the dividend on. Since it is 25% - he gets $12.50 in dividend.

Hence his total earnings are 2 + 12.5.



Reg. ur explaination that dividend is in $'s rather than %, I tend to disagree too. Its a practice to give dollar values, but essentially it is %.
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face value?? [#permalink] New post 01 Dec 2003, 23:40
My contention is that the dividend on a share depends on the face value of the share. The face value could be 1, 10 , 100 etc.
So the answer to this question cannot be found??

Pls correct me if i m wrong!!

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 [#permalink] New post 01 Dec 2003, 23:46
maverick_ucdc wrote:
The answer is C.

50 bucks is what he will earn the dividend on. Since it is 25% - he gets $12.50 in dividend.

Hence his total earnings are 2 + 12.5.



Reg. ur explaination that dividend is in $'s rather than %, I tend to disagree too. Its a practice to give dollar values, but essentially it is %.


Sorry. You are WRONG. Dividends are always announced in $ per share. This amount is constant regardless of share price (i.e., is a fixed amount) until the board of directors announces another change. Of course, at any given moment in time, you can calculate the dividend YIELD which is in percentage. This is NOT done backwards, i.e., the dividend paid is never dependent on the underlying stock price and paid as a percentage of it.
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