Fannie Mae (FNMA)

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If everything added up to a $5 dividend being possible, I would think the execs would see that as an opportunity to either issue and sell more shares (and thus lower the dividend to being more in line with typical financial sector companies’ dividends), or to stash a large amount of money into some kind of strategic reserves / capital reserves, and thus not pay dividends on that portion, so again the dividend amount would become lower than $5. I just wonder how realistic it’d be for them to have a dividend that sticks out like a sore thumb on day 1 when compared to others in the same sector. Then again, if everything adds up that way, the execs might prefer to let the “adjustment to peer group tickers” come in the form of a large share price increase. That would put the $5 dividend amount into a situation where it is not sticking out, when compared to the share price. And if the execs are allowed to have their compensation linked to share price, maybe they’d prefer that route. Lots of ifs in wondering about the dividend amount, and whether it will ever come to be.