dividend
- noun
- /ˈdɪvɪˌdɛnd/
- Specialized
- We call this model the dividend per share model.
- pay dividends
- cash dividend
- annual dividend
When they pay out a dividend, the share price falls.
- When they pay out a dividend, the share price falls.
- Or they could just pull the dividend, just wipe it out completely.
- Qualified dividends will receive better tax treatments.
- And let me just pretend there's no dividends to keep life simple when I go when I say this.
- stocks, and then there is VYMI which is Vanguard's ETF of the highest dividend paying international stocks.
- And it's a way of avoiding double taxation for the income you earn from dividends.
- I think they see more competition, less growth, and I think that paying of dividends signals that that's what they're saying.
- And the most logical answer to me, I think Trump Media Group's going to announce a dividend.
Examples
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I've just seen the latest company statement raising the dividends.
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Investors eagerly awaited news about the company's quarterly dividend distribution after a successful fiscal year.
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And your dividend check, of course.
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When they pay out a dividend, the share price falls.
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You just have to sit back and collect your fat dividend at the end of the year.
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And from that point the dividends went up, not down.
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I hope to be able to pay some dividends to those investors.
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First we'll declare a dividend, the biggest ever declared by any railroad.
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But the rewards it gives, the dividends it pays, is really significant.
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It's a private entity and its shareholders are banks which earn a dividend.
Synonyms
A share of a co-op's profits given to its members
Compounds
- Specialized
A payment a company makes to people who own its shares every three months
- Specialized
A payment to shareholders that makes up for losses from a changed dividend schedule
- Specialized
A special payment a company gives people who own its shares when it has extra money
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Etymology
The word dividend comes from the same root dividere meaning 'to divide'. It once meant a 'share to be divided', which is why a company's dividend is the part of profit paid out to each shareholder.