Enterprise & Equity Value
A company's cumulative preferred stock has skipped several dividends. How do the dividends in arrears affect the bridge?
Model answer
Add them. With cumulative preferred, unpaid dividends accumulate as arrears that must be paid before common shareholders receive anything - they're part of the preferred claim, senior to common. So…
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