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quarterly dividend

quarterly dividend

1 4.6
A payment a company makes to people who own its shares every three months
  • noun
  • /ˈkwɔrtərli ˈdɪvɪdɛnd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : dividendo trimestral
  • All while CTL continues to dish out a quarterly dividend to its shareholders... hmmmm, take care of the shareholders but not your employees?
  • quarterly dividend of 5 cents
  • raised its quarterly dividend
  • increased the quarterly dividend

Examples

  • With a current quarterly dividend of $0.52, shares now yield over 2.7%.

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  • The board of directors announced that the quarterly dividend would be distributed to shareholders next month.

  • J.M. Smucker recently raised its quarterly dividend by 8%.

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  • Starbucks currently pays a quarterly dividend of $0.21 per share, for an annual dividend yield of 1.7%.

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  • Currently, Pfizer pays a quarterly dividend of $0.22 per share, for an annual dividend yield of 3.6%.

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  • Earlier in the year, Starwood Property Trust management announced that the quarterly dividend would be stabilized at 44 cents quarterly or $1.76 per year.

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  • And Dell Inc. (DELL) has yielded to pressure and initiated a quarterly dividend.

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  • After a successful financial quarter, the company declared a quarterly dividend of 1.50 dollars per share.

  • Shareholders eagerly await the news of the quarterly dividend payout during the annual meeting.

Synonyms

dividend
vsquarterly dividend
  • Specialized
121 4.7

Money a company pays regularly to its shareholders from its profit

is the specific term for the same payment when paid every three months

How Often

quarterly dividend
  • Specialized
1 4.6
semiannual
3 4.1

Surface Forms

quarterly dividend singular
quarterly dividends plural

Morphology

quarterly + dividend

The meaning 'a dividend paid every three months' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'quarterly' (every three months) + 'dividend' (a payment from company profits to shareholders). This adjective+noun combination follows standard semantic composition and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand it.

Etymology

Quarterly dividend comes from a simple business idea: companies split the year into four parts and give part of their profit to owners. The word quarterly means 'every three months' and dividend is a 'share of profit', so quarterly dividend means a profit payment made 'every three months'.