摘要:A group of shareholders with a preference regarding how much a company will pay out in dividends, often for tax reasons. Dividend clientele usually make decisions regarding distributions based on whic[阅读全文]

摘要:A variation of the price-to-earnings ratio where a stock's value is further evaluated by its projected earnings growth rate and dividend yield.

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摘要:A unique account where untaxed gains are deposited within a private company.

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First introduced by Merrill Lynch, PRIDES are synthetic securities consisting of a forward contract to purchase the issuer's underlying security and an in[阅读全文] 

		

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A preferred share that is not required to pay a dividend to its holder. The owner of a zero-dividend preferred share will earn income from capital appreciation and may receive [阅读全文]

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A dividend that is owed to stockholders of record but has yet to be distributed. An unpaid dividend will exist in the time between the date of record (when the stock will be tr[阅读全文]

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The belief that shareholders prefer equity appreciation to dividends because capital gains are effectively taxed at lower rates than dividends. Corporations that adopt this vie[阅读全文]

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A type of incoming cash flow that an investor creates with certain financial securities to produce a dividend-like payment stream that resembles the periodic cash receipts from a divid[阅读全文]

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A dividend payment made in the form of additional shares, rather than a cash payout.

Also known as a "scrip dividend."


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A non-recurring distribution of company assets, usually in the form of cash, to shareholders. A special dividend is larger compared to normal dividends paid out by the company. Also re[阅读全文]

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Companies that have had an increase in dividends for 25 consecutive years. The S&P Dividend Aristocrats index tracks the performance of these companies. A dividend aristocrat tends to [阅读全文]

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The term residual dividend refers to a method of calculating dividends. A dividend is a payment made by a company to its shareholders. It is essentially a portion of the company's pro[阅读全文]

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A type of dividend to which capital gains tax rates are applied. These tax rates are usually lower than regular income tax rates.





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An alternative to cash or stock dividends. A property dividend can either include shares of a subsidiary company or physical assets such as inventories that the company holds. The divi[阅读全文]

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A dividend that is accrued and paid on a company's preferred shares. In the event that a company is unable to pay all dividends, claims to preferred dividends take precedence [阅读全文]

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A coverage ratio that measures a company's ability to pay off its required preferred dividend payments. A healthy company will have a high coverage ratio, indicating that it has littl[阅读全文]

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A share of a company's profits passed on to the shareholders on a periodic basis. Ordinary dividends are taxed as ordinary income and are reported on Line 9a of the Schedule B[阅读全文]

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Payment by a firm to its owners from capital rather than from earnings.




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A dividend payment made before a company's AGM and final financial statements. This declared dividend usually accompanies the company's interim financial statements.

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A dividend declared by a corporation that is in violation of its charter and/or of state laws. Should such a dividend be declared, the company's board of directors can be sued by its [阅读全文]