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Home > Education > Homework Help > Finance & Accounting   »   What formula do I use to see how much a company's retained earnings increase?

 
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Old May 20, 2008, 03:18 AM
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What formula do I use to see how much a company's retained earnings increase?

I have read Chapter 18 in Block, Stanley and Hirt, Geoffrey (2005), foundations of Financial Management several times and do not understand how to answer this question-
Springsteen Music Company earned $820 million last year and paid out 20 percent of earnings in dividends.
a) By how much did the company's retained earnings increase?
b) With 100 million shares outstanding and a stock price of $50, what was the dividend yield?



820 X 20% = 164
100 X 50 = 5000

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Old May 22, 2008, 08:13 PM   #2  
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Dividends come from earnings.

Beginning retained earnings + net income - dividends = ending retained earnings. If earnings are 820 and dividends are 164, how did did retained earnings increase?

Dividend yield = dividend per share/market price per share. I would hope that equation is in your book.
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