So while EPR's dividend
is likely to remain safe during a regular recession, another financial crisis could lead to a dividend cut if credit
markets face a similar meltdown, especially if the movie theater industry finds itself
on even
shakier ground.
The comparisons to financial
markets are getting OT and a little silly, but bender
is on shaky ground when he claims that historical stock price movements
are ``... «informative» in the sense of information theory...» In fact, the weak - form Efficient
Market Hypothesis, which
is the basis of much of modern finance, posits the exact opposite — that all relevant information
is contained in the current stock price and there
is no informational content in historical movements.
The CMBS
market has
been on shaky ground recently, as concerns about the stock
market, China and the global economy dampened lender and investor confidence.