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dividend

dividend

121 4.7
Money a company pays regularly to its shareholders from its profit
  • noun
  • /ˈdɪvɪˌdɛnd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : dividendo
  • 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.

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Examples

  • I've just seen the latest company statement raising the dividends.

  • Investors eagerly awaited news about the company's quarterly dividend distribution after a successful fiscal year.

  • And your dividend check, of course.

  • When they pay out a dividend, the share price falls.

  • You just have to sit back and collect your fat dividend at the end of the year.

  • And from that point the dividends went up, not down.

  • I hope to be able to pay some dividends to those investors.

  • First we'll declare a dividend, the biggest ever declared by any railroad.

  • But the rewards it gives, the dividends it pays, is really significant.

  • It's a private entity and its shareholders are banks which earn a dividend.

Synonyms

divvy
vsdividend
  • Archaic
9.3

A share of a co-op's profits given to its members

is the regular corporate payment from profits to shareholders rather than a cooperative payment

Compounds

stock dividend
  • Specialized
2 4.0

Extra shares given to shareholders instead of cash

quarterly dividend
  • Specialized
1 4.6

A payment a company makes to people who own its shares every three months

8.3

An official paper telling a company to pay a shareholder a dividend

equalizing dividend
  • Specialized
9.4

A payment to shareholders that makes up for losses from a changed dividend schedule

extra dividend
  • Specialized
5.1

A special payment a company gives people who own its shares when it has extra money

How Much

extra dividend
  • Specialized
5.1
dividend
  • Specialized
121 4.7

Surface Forms

dividend singular
dividends plural

Morphology

dividend = divide (transparent) = divide + end

The financial sense (a portion of profits distributed to shareholders) is directly interpretable as something 'to be divided' among claimants, so learners can deduce the meaning from 'divide'.

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.