Abstract
Article history: Received October 14, 2012 Received in revised format 24 December 2012 Accepted 5 January 2013 Available online January 18 2013 Dividend plays an important role on changing profitability in any business units including banking industry. In this paper, we present an empirical survey to study the effect of asymmetric information and growth opportunities on dividend policies among some private banks in Iran. The proposed study of this paper gathers the necessary information from all private banks whose shares are listed in Tehran Stock Exchange over the period 2005-2011. The study uses regression analysis to study the effects of various factors where dividend distribution policy is considered as a function of four independent variables namely spread, bank size, growth opportunity and cash flow. The results of the survey indicate that there are some positive and meaningful relationships between growth opportunity and dividend pay (0.003308), between bank size and dividend pay (0.019497) and between bank size and dividend pay (0.168821). © 2013 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Highlights
Dividend plays an important role on changing profitability in any business units including banking industry
The proposed study of this paper gathers the necessary information from all private banks whose shares are listed in Tehran Stock Exchange over the period 2005-2011
The study uses regression analysis to study the effects of various factors where dividend distribution policy is considered as a function of four independent variables namely spread, bank size, growth opportunity and cash flow
Summary
Dividend plays an important role on changing profitability in any business units including banking industry. Gaspar et al (2013) studied how shareholder investment horizons impacted payout policy choices They inferred institutional shareholders' investment horizons using the churn rate of their overall stock portfolios before the payout decision and reported that the frequency and amount of repurchases could increase with ownership by short-term investors to the detriment of dividends. They explained that the market reacted less positively to repurchase announcements made by companies held by short-term institutions. Yu and Liang (2012) performed an empirical study for the performance of dividend policy based on financing constraints and agency cost trade-off
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