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Decision making with regard to the dividend is an important topic because this is influenced by various factors such as economic factors. One of the economic factorsis the company's life cycle. According to the life-cycle theory, companies in different stages of the life cycle show specific behaviors financially and economically. It means that institutions and companies follow specific policy according to stage of their economic life. Thus, the present study investigates the relationship between cash dividends paid and investment at the company's life cycle in listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange. Accordingly, the research hypotheses were tested using the mix data regression in Tehran stock exchange with regard to the related data from 2003 to 2012. Among all attended companies, 680 companies were selected as the statistical sample. The findings show that there is a significant direct relationship between the cash dividend and investment,but this relationship differs in various stages of the company's life cycle.

One aim of investors in the purchasing of company stocks is using from the dividends. Investors enjoy from the cash flow and want to receive assure for particular amounts in the determine time, on the other hand, dividends payout can indicate the financial healthy and suitable condition of company for investors. So companies can use this weapon in their sharing price and also guiding the investors. The aim of this research is the consideration of the payment dividends balance dependent with the company operation of two assessment equivalent including the economic value added and return on assets. In order to consider the subject of 88 companies select that was necessary to account the research variables and the suitable statistic testing perform like the correlation tests, This research results is that the dividends has weak cohesion with economic value added and it has no cohesion relation with return on assets. Therefore, we can conclude that payment or nonpayment of dividends cannot indicate the suitable or unsuitable operation of company and increasing or decreasing of dividends also should not be indicate for fairness or unfairness investment in the company ,so utilization of dividends don't recommend to take the investment and credit decisions by investors and creditors.