490 Part Five Payout Policy and Capital Structure
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You can download data for the following questions from the Yahoo! Finance website (www.
finance.yahoo.com).- Look up Johnson & Johnson on Yahoo! Finance.
a. Recalculate book- and market-value balance sheets using the most recent available finan-
cial information. Use the same format as for Table 18.4.
b. Track Johnson & Johnson’s long-term debt and debt ratio over the last five years (you
will need to go to the company’s website to do this). How have they changed? Does
it appear that the company has a stable target debt ratio? Do you see any evidence of
pecking-order financing?
c. How much has the company spent to repurchase its own shares? Would the trade-off
theory predict share repurchases for a conservatively financed company like Johnson &
Johnson? - Select three or four companies from the Yahoo! Finance database. Estimate how much more
these companies could borrow before they would exhaust taxable profits.
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