Investigating the Relationship between Dividend, Investment Opportunities and External Financing During Companie's Life Cycle

In this paper, we have investigated the relationship between dividend policy, investment opportunities and external financing, taking into account the company's life cycle. We collect the required data for the sample of 105 companies in Tehran Stock Exchange, over a ten-year period from 1382 to 1391. To test the hypotheses, multiple regression model has been used. We used the Anthony and Ramesh‘s model (1992) for a breakdown of the corporate life cycle stages. The results from this study indicate that there is a significant relationship between dividend policy and investment opportunities in the growth stage, while there is no significant relationship between dividend policy and investment opportunities in the mature stage. In addition, there is no significant relationship between dividend policy and external financing in the growth stage, while there is a significant relationship between these variables in the mature stage.