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dividend
The payment to stockholders is called a "dividend." Dividends are typically distributed from a company's profits and can be issued in cash or additional shares of stock. Companies may choose to pay dividends as a way to return value to their shareholders.
The portion corporate profits paid out of stockholders is A dividend is quarterly payment to stockholders of record, as a return on investment. Dividends may be in cash, stock, or property, and are declared from operating surplus. If there is no surplus, the payment is considered a return on capital. Dividend payments are, in effect, taxed twice-once when corporate profits are taxed and again when the dividend is received by a taxpaying stockholder. The corporate profits paid out to stockholders is called dividends.
Profits paid to stockholders are called dividends.
Stockholders Equity is increase by profits and the issuance of new stock. Stockholders Equity is reduced by losses, the payment of dividends and the purchase of Treasury Stock (the company's re-purchase of its own stock).
Corporation
Another word for shareholders is "stockholders."
Dividends are classified as stockholders' equity. They reduce stockholders' equity so they can also be called a contra equity account.
it is called a corporation.
Stockholders
Preferred stockholders typically receive dividends before common stockholders.