Question

Which of the following is not an action company co-managers can take to help meet or beat the investor-expected increases in the company's stock price in upcoming years?

a. Increasing annual dividend payments to shareholders most every year
b. Pursuing efforts to increase total operating profits in all four geographic regions the resulting growth in operating profits will improve total net profit and help raise the EPS, driving the company's stock price upward
c. Increasing the amount of earnings retained in the business, thereby building a large amount of cash held in the company's retained earnings account on its Balance Sheet
d. Using a portion of cash flows from operations to repurchase shares of common stock on a regular basis
e. Building the company's earnings per share and retrun on equity; it is widely-known that these are important factors that drive the company's stock price

Answer 1

Answer:

c. Increasing the amount of earnings retained in the business, thereby building a large amount of cash held in the company's retained earnings account on its Balance Sheet

Explanation:

In the case when the retained earnings in increased so it created the large amount of cash that should be held in the retained earning account of the company in the balance sheet but the same should not have any kind of impact for beating the expectation of the investor for increase in the stock price in near future

So, the option c is correct