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A company has a Dividend Yield of 2.0% and a P/E multiple of 20x. It decides to use its excess cash to repurchase shares.

If the after-tax interest rate on its cash was 3.0%, will the buyback be accretive or dilutive to EPS?

  1. Break-even
  2. Accretive
  3. Dilutive
  4. It depends on the number of shares repurchased relative to the total shares outstanding.

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