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required external financing: Original post by Ryan Menezes of Demand Media Any single dividend payout reveals the amount of equity that a company has. The dividend payout is a fraction of the company's net income, and the size of the fraction depends on how much equity the investor has contributed with respect to the company's total equity. When a company has a target level of equity that they want for operations, the…

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