Corporate Finance: Instructor\'s Manual Applied Corporate Finance

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Can you trust Disney’s management?

! Given Disney’s track record over the last 10 years, if you were a Disney

stockholder, would you be comfortable with Disney’s dividend policy?

# Yes

# No

The fact that Disney has underperformed the market both in terms of stock price

performance and return on equity suggests that stockholders are unlikely to

have much patience with Disney accumulating cash (afraid of what they will do

with the cash).