Question

Common stockholders' equity as of 1/1/2017 $7,031,250 Common stockholders' equity as of 12/31/2017 $8,593,750 Net sales for the year 2017 $3,906,250 Net income for the year 2017 $250,000 Common stock dividends paid during 2017 $10,000 Calculate the company's Payout Ratio.

Answer 1

it is 4%

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

the payout ratio is 4%

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the payout ratio is shown below:

The payout ratio is

= Dividend ÷ net income

= $10,000 ÷ $250,000

= 4%

We simply divided the dividend from the net income so that the payout ratio could come

Hence, the payout ratio is 4%