cash dividend
Profit share distribution
A cash dividend is a payment made by a corporation to its shareholders, distributed from profits as actual money rather than additional stock.
Companies typically pay cash dividends quarterly: The board declared a cash dividend of $0.50 per share.
Reliable cash dividends signal financial health and attract income-focused investors.
- payoutMoney distributed to recipient
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- shareholderEquity owner in corporation
- quarterlyFour times annually
- payment dateScheduled remittance deadline
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- corporate payoutsbonuses, annual bonus, profit sharing, executive compensation, stock options
- taxable incomecapital gain, capital gains, bonus, rental income, bond interest
- stock actionsstock split, reverse split, merger, acquisition, IPO