The article is dedicated to the issue of the payment of dividends by the Polish listed companies. Author makes an attempt to determine the impact of dividends on stock prices, and consequently - relation to them all investors. The analysis was based on the daily quotation of stock prices of companies paying an annual dividend. The survey includes periods were mainly from the General Meeting of Shareholders of the last day of quotations of shares with dividend and cut-off period from the date of the stock dividend to the date on which the stock price reaches the price before that date. The purpose of the empirical analysis was to verify whether the behavior of stock prices during the past occurred in connection with the regularity of dividend and whether it is possible to determine on this basis, the optimal strategy to invest in these values based on the above-average price changes.
The article is devoted to analysis of correlation between rates of return of stocks and stock market indexes listed on the Stock Exchange in Warsaw with dynamics of macroeconomic and market factors. The purpose of this article was attempt to determine whether there factors are correlated linearly with changes of stock prices on the stock market and the degree of this dependence. Assuming that the variables are stationary, empirical studies was based on Pearson's linear correlation coefficients. There were analyzed 427 stocks and 18 indexes for the whole period of their quotations. On this basis there were set the number of companies whose correlation coefficient was located at certain intervals in the range of -1 to 1, according to the J. Guilford's classification, and the percentage of these companies.
The article is devoted one of the investment strategy based on value investing. This strategy was developed by John Neff. He headed the Windsor Fund for many years. The main assumption of this strategy is investing in stocks these are low market valuation ratio (price to earnings ratio forming from 40 to 60% of the market) and additionally, these companies are likely to develop. These are measured according to certain criteria. In this publication empirically verified the results to the strategy of John Neff for the stocks listed on the Polish stock market in the years 2007-2012. Companies in accordance with criterion of size of P/E ratio evaluated for compatibility with the Rother objectives of the strategy, and then tested the effects of investment in their stocks as compared to the results for the broad market index.
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