Dividend policy revisited : a Singapore perspective.

This paper aims to find the relationship between dividends and the market price of a company's share in the Singapore context. Our main concern is to provide justifications for companies in a full imputation tax environment to adopt a liberal dividend policy so as to maximize the market value of their shares. Our analysis involved price-earnings ratio as a proxy for share value, dividend payout ratio and dividend yield of all dividends paying stock (this ranges from 173 in 1989 to 394 in 1998) for the 10-year period from1989-1998