Most dividends are paid to shareholders based on the company's profits and financial performance. Companies typically distribute a portion of their earnings to shareholders as dividends as a way to reward them for their investment in the company.
Dividends are paid to shareholders by three types. They can either be paid annually, or biannually, or on quarterly basis.
Dividends are usually paid to the investors of a company. These are paid on an annual or, more commonly, a quarterly basis.
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Dividends are paid from corporate profits.
Dividends paid divided by the toal number of shares outstanding.
Dividends are paid to shareholders by three types. They can either be paid annually, or biannually, or on quarterly basis.
Dividends are usually paid to the investors of a company. These are paid on an annual or, more commonly, a quarterly basis.
outstanding
Dividends are paid from corporate profits.
Dividends paid divided by the toal number of shares outstanding.
Most corporatiions that pay dividends, pay them 4 times a year.
Stockholders
A corporation should pay dividends to its shareholders when it has excess profits that it wants to distribute to them as a form of return on their investment. Dividends are typically paid on a regular basis, such as quarterly or annually, depending on the company's financial performance and dividend policy.
By definition, dividends are paid out of profits, they can not be paid out of anything else (not loans, not losses, etc). If the dividends paid exceed profits for the same period the distribution is considered a return of capital (stock basis, additional paid in captial, etc). So an overstated profit WILL reulst in "erosion of capital" if correction of the overstatement results in profits being less than dividends.
Yes, the amount of x dividends paid will reduce retained earnings by x.
Paid up additions is a method of receiving your dividends from a mutual insurance company. Paid up additions is actually a very good method as it allows a policyholder to use their dividends to purchase paid up additional insurance in the policy thereby increasing coverage and increasing annual dividends because dividends are also paid on the additional insurance. You do not have to pay taxes on the dividends paid in this manner either.
Most dividends on stocks and shares are paid twice a year, some pay four times a year.