1. Stockholders may prefer dividends to reinvestment by the firm
because investors may prefer current cash to future cash.
because dividend payments have an information content.
because dividends may resolve some uncertainty.
All of these options
2. Which of the following is a characteristic of beta?
A beta of 1.0 is of equal risk with the market.
Beta measures only the volatility of returns on an individual bond relative to a bond market index.
Two of the options.
A beta of greater than 1.0 has less risk than the market.