noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
peace dividend
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ You calculate the dividend yield by dividing the annual dividend by the market price of a stock.
▪ The taxpayer received not only a capital sum when the companies were sold but now also receives a substantial annual dividend.
▪ So the sums involved in pricing water must take an annual dividend into account.
big
▪ This great deal could net you a big first dividend if eight of your selections are score draws.
▪ An expanding body of data suggests that this modest investment can pay big dividends.
▪ But shareholders get a bigger dividend.
▪ At marginal mines, small improvements could pay big dividends.
▪ A small investment of time, energy and imagination in improving the environment of the dining hall could pay big dividends.
final
▪ A final dividend of 7.25p makes a total of 12.75p for the nine-month reporting period, a prorata increase of 6 percent.
▪ A 9p final dividend takes the total on from 13p to 14p.
▪ A final dividend of 6.5p makes a total of 11p, after a special dividend of 10p which was paid in June.
▪ A 1.01p final dividend on June 5, lifts the total from 1.39p to 1.45p.
▪ The final dividend is increased to 12.2p making a full year dividend of 18.3p-a rise of 10 %.
▪ A final dividend of 3.75p lifts the 1992 total from 5p to 5.65p, and the shares jumped 7.5p to 243.5p.
▪ A 2.7p final dividend on July 1 takes the total on from 4.2p to 4.4p.
▪ The group's turnover rose from £8.1 million to £9.66 million and a final dividend of 9p a share was declared.
future
▪ You invest in the equity market to provide yourself with a stream of future dividends which will hopefully outpace inflation.
▪ Profits reinvested in the corporation are available to finance future growth of the corporation or to pay future dividends.
▪ The reduction in distributable reserves may, of course, affect the company's ability to pay future dividends.
▪ Champion said remaining holders of preferred stock agreed to waive future dividends.
▪ The markets' valuation of the future dividend flow will also depend upon the relative attractiveness of alternative investments.
▪ The shareholders are betting on future dividends and would rather forego them today.
▪ There are numerous assumptions that can be made about the pattern of expected future dividends.
high
▪ But it is not at all clear that high dividends have been damaging, in themselves.
▪ Do they return the money to shareholders through higher dividends or repay debt?
▪ Fund managers may be able to maintain the high dividend payments only at the expense of capital.
▪ That tendency, plus the high dividend yields, usually produces a strong performance.
▪ Such expenditure is a necessary investment, but it is one which yields high dividends.
▪ Typically, the highest dividends are paid by stable, long-lived companies.
▪ So returns will be more stable on a share with a higher dividend yield, other things being equal.
▪ He sticks with large, domestic companies that pay high dividends.
interim
▪ A cautious outlook from P&O's chairman Lord Sterling sent the stock dipping 5p to 663p despite the boosted interim dividend payout.
▪ An interim dividend of 6p per ordinary share was paid on 1 April 1993 in respect of the year ending 31 December 1993.
▪ Conglomerate Williams Holdings disappointed the City with the interim dividend unchanged.
▪ An interim dividend of 3.35p was paid on 2 November 1992.
▪ Shareholders are left with just the 1p interim dividend.
▪ The interim dividend is raised to 1.2p from 1.03p while earnings per share climbed to 7.24p from 5.93p.
▪ Earnings per share rose from 5p to 6.87p and the trust's interim dividend is held at 3.4p.
▪ The board expects a similar percentage increase in next year's interim dividend from 6.75p to 7p.
quarterly
▪ If the dividend yield is 4 percent perannum, then the quarterly dividend payment is 1 percent.
▪ To that end, Kmart also eliminated its 12-cents-a-share quarterly dividend.
reinvested
▪ Including reinvested dividends, returns on stocks rose 36. 87 %, as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
▪ Performance data are total returns, which include both share prices and reinvested dividends.
special
▪ A special dividend, worth £17 million to Polly Peck, is being paid before the change of ownership.
▪ A final dividend of 6.5p makes a total of 11p, after a special dividend of 10p which was paid in June.
▪ Meanwhile, it announced a special 6p dividend payment covering the change in the year end.
▪ Shareholders got a special interim dividend of 3p in November to cover these results.
stock
▪ These voters have stock dividends and municipal bonds on their minds, too.
▪ From an economic perspective, there is no substantive difference between a stock split and a stock dividend.
▪ Banks will report stock losses and dividends next month at annual shareholder meetings.
▪ They seem at first glance to be the same, using stocks and income from bonds and stock dividends to grow.
▪ Total compensation often includes, in addition to salaries, stock options and dividends, and other performance bonuses.
total
▪ The total dividend is maintained at 25p per share.
▪ The total dividend is increased to 4.8p per share from 4p previously.
▪ Shareholders get a total 5% dividend increase for the year to 6.55p.
▪ Shareholders will receive a 15% increase in their total dividend payment to 21p per share from 18.25p.
▪ However, shareholders continue to suffer as the group halved its total dividend for the second year in a row.
▪ The total dividend is 8.2 percent up on 1991 at 11.9p.
▪ Shareholders, who received a total dividend payout for 1991 of 3.75p per share, will receive nothing for last year.
▪ Shareholders have been promised unchanged total dividends of not less than 5.25p this year.
■ NOUN
cash
▪ There is no tax advantage to shareholders in receiving shares in place of the normal cash dividend.
▪ The revenues, the earnings and cash dividends are up for 50 consecutive years.
▪ The Directors propose to offer shareholders the opportunity to receive fully paid ordinary shares in the Company in lieu of the cash dividend.
▪ Many companies parcel out portions of their profits to stockholders in the form of cash dividend payments.
▪ The Directors propose to offer ordinary shareholders the opportunity to receive fully paid ordinary shares in the Company in lieu of the cash dividend.
▪ The deal enables it to offer creditors a 25% cash dividend to keep the company in business.
▪ As an alternative to the cash dividend the Board is proposing that an enhanced scrip dividend is offered to shareholders.
growth
▪ For example, suppose we have a company from which we expect a dividend growth of 25 percent for the next 5 years.
▪ Studies show a strong association between consistent dividend growth and long-term stock performance.
▪ Long term dividend growth might average 10 p.c.
▪ The fund also requires stocks to pay a dividend, and looks for favorable prospects for dividend growth.
▪ But since their dividend growth should be ahead of the market's, the yield premium should be slimmer.
income
▪ But the dividend income is relatively modest, and coming from abroad they are not a tax-efficient source of income.
▪ This would normally be deducted from dividend income before calculating the income available for distribution to unit holders.
▪ Announcement of the Offer will result in more than doubled dividend income for Palatine shareholders.
▪ Yield: dividend income relative to price paid.
▪ The fundamental cause of higher volatility, however, is that dividend income is in decline.
▪ Over the long haul, dividend income has averaged between 4 per cent and 6 per cent.
payment
▪ The gain from leverage arises because the interest payments on bonds are tax-deductible whereas the dividend payments on shares are not.
▪ From an accounting point of view, dividend payment is a two-step process.
▪ To illustrate, suppose that all dividend payments are concentrated on a single day in each quarter.
▪ None the less, they hold on because they expect much bigger earnings in the future to eventually fuel dividend payments.
▪ Fund managers may be able to maintain the high dividend payments only at the expense of capital.
▪ Finally, there are some legal constraints on dividend payments.
▪ If the dividend yield is 4 percent perannum, then the quarterly dividend payment is 1 percent.
▪ Many companies parcel out portions of their profits to stockholders in the form of cash dividend payments.
payout
▪ A cautious outlook from P&O's chairman Lord Sterling sent the stock dipping 5p to 663p despite the boosted interim dividend payout.
▪ Given this measure, dividends per share are determined by where is the target dividend payout ratio.
▪ Hotels-to-racing group Ladbroke's dramatically reduced profits did not unduly worry the City which approved of its increased dividend payout.
▪ Even Wellcome's healthy interim figures and an improved dividend payout left the stock 8p weaker at 883p.
▪ In addition they estimated the implied income tax brackets associated with each dividend payout level.
▪ Its strong profits rise and increased dividend payout had been anticipated by the City and the shares gained just a penny.
▪ The City was not too deterred by the rights issue which was offset by strong interim figures and an improved dividend payout.
peace
▪ He mumbles some nonsense about clowns being the cause of peace - perhaps the money for the convention is the peace dividend?
▪ But the base is about to become a casualty of the peace dividend.
▪ But Cheltenham has been hit by the recession, the signs are there, fuelled in part by the so-called peace dividend.
▪ The peace dividend has contributed to thousands of job cuts at defence contractors like Dowty group and Smiths industries.
policy
▪ In practice also, the dividend policy chosen by the firm is important.
▪ It expects all three new companies to have dividend policies comparable to similar companies in their industries.
▪ The first point to make is that dividend policy and share valuation take place under conditions of uncertainty.
▪ One well-known and generally accepted approach to the problem is the residual theory of dividend policy.
▪ Similarly, changing dividend policy to yield more cash for investment needs to be handled with care.
▪ Or a conflict of interest can easily develop with respect to current dividend policies.
▪ The foregoing strongly suggests that dividend policy and practice contains important information for the shareholder.
▪ According to the theory, dividend policy should be determined by a simple three-step process.
yield
▪ If the dividend yield is 4 percent perannum, then the quarterly dividend payment is 1 percent.
▪ The Dow dividend yield is 1. 95 percent, a record low.
▪ But for the basic rate taxpayer, the problem of annual management charges eroding a diminished dividend yield remains.
▪ The stockholders' expected rate of return has two components-an expected dividend yield and an expected capital gain.
▪ These summary measures are earnings per share, the price-earnings ratio and the dividend yield.
▪ This is not the same as the most commonly used measure of dividends: the dividend yield.
▪ The net dividend yield is defined as, using Table 6.2.
▪ You calculate the dividend yield by dividing the annual dividend by the market price of a stock.
■ VERB
announce
▪ Meanwhile, it announced a special 6p dividend payment covering the change in the year end.
cut
▪ But, after a management reshuffle, it has done the sensible thing and cut the dividend.
▪ And for the second successive year, the St Helens based group is forced to cut its dividend.
declare
▪ Cogeco's board of directors did not declare a dividend for the first quarter, which ended Nov. 30.
▪ To declare a dividend. 3.
▪ Barratt was confident to declare a dividend of £1, 200 in 1837 of which he had £300.
expect
▪ For example, suppose we have a company from which we expect a dividend growth of 25 percent for the next 5 years.
▪ You could expect dividends of about 7 percent, producing a $ 12, 537 annual income stream.
▪ He expects to receive a dividend at the end of the year as well as the price for the share at that time.
▪ The stockholders' expected rate of return has two components-an expected dividend yield and an expected capital gain.
hold
▪ Without the promise, it must be doubtful whether Ibstock would have held the dividend.
▪ Last month Wimpey decided to hold its dividend despite making losses in 1991.
▪ Anglia is holding its dividend total at 9.26p, and the shares added 9p to 258p.
include
▪ P 500-stock index has advanced 13. 7 percent a year, including dividends.
increase
▪ It was pointed out that all the Banks had significantly increased their dividend payments to their share-holders.
▪ On Tuesday, the company announced it was splitting its stock and increasing its dividend by 25 percent.
▪ It made £41.7m compared with £32.5m in 1990 and is increasing its total dividend payout to 56.4p per share from 47p.
▪ De Oriol of Iberdrola was less sanguine about the possibility of increased dividends.
▪ Of course, if earnings do not increase, the dividends will not increase.
maintain
▪ However, the organisational culture maintaining the patriarchal dividend still seems to be very much a reality.
▪ For these reasons, most finns strive to maintain a reasonably stable dividend payment from year to year.
▪ Fund managers may be able to maintain the high dividend payments only at the expense of capital.
▪ The company is reviewing whether to cut or maintain its generous dividend payout; a decision is expected next month.
▪ More directors of trusts are indicating a willingness to draw on these reserves to maintain dividends or meet commitments.
▪ They nevertheless determined to maintain their own dividend levels - even at the risk of dealing in volatile pre-election conditions.
▪ This helped us to maintain the dividend at 9p per share, rather than having to reduce it.
offer
▪ In particular, preferred shares offer a fixed dividend, like bonds and unlike ordinary shares.
▪ More than 900 companies offer dividend reinvestment plans.
pay
▪ Even if a share does not pay dividends temporarily, it must eventually pay dividends to have any value.
▪ Eighty-eight of them paid no dividend.
▪ The reduction in distributable reserves may, of course, affect the company's ability to pay future dividends.
▪ First, the board of directors must meet and vote to pay a dividend oniy the board has this power.
▪ Yes, there has been more consistency, a following of the capitalist competitive dream, which has paid good dividends.
▪ Blue chip refers to firms with long track records for turning profits and paying dividends.
▪ It paid no dividend until 1988.
▪ Making tough choices now will pay dividends in the far-off days of summer.
raise
▪ The imperative was to raise dividends.
▪ Own stocks that raise dividends regularly.
▪ However, Dowding can afford to raise the dividend by 5 p.c. to 0.92p, payable on May 8.
▪ Dean Witter has raised its dividend in each of the three years since it went public in 1993.
▪ It raised its dividend 8% nevertheless.
▪ To cope with inflation, buy stocks of companies that annually raise your dividends substantially.
receive
▪ The taxpayer received not only a capital sum when the companies were sold but now also receives a substantial annual dividend.
▪ Its only activity is to receive and pay dividends.
▪ He expects to receive a dividend at the end of the year as well as the price for the share at that time.
▪ The holding company will then receive the dividend as group income without any tax credit.
▪ For example, a basic rate taxpayer currently receives a net dividend distribution of £75 on his equity investment.
▪ Shareholders will not receive a final dividend, reducing the total payout to just 5p from 15.7p in 1991.
▪ A partially secured creditor is entitled to receive a dividend on the unsecured part of his claim having valued his security.
▪ Shareholders will receive an interim dividend increased from 5.03p per share to 5.2p.
recommend
▪ The board has recommended a final dividend of 6 pence per share, for an unchanged 10 pence total for the year.
▪ The board is recommending a final dividend of 4.65 pence per share.
▪ The board has recommended a dividend of 0.7p per share, broadly in line with last year.
▪ The board is not recommending a dividend because cash management remains a priority.
▪ It is recommending a final dividend of 5.25 pence.
▪ The board has recommended that the interim dividend be maintained at 2.5 pence per share.
reduce
▪ This amount is reduced by dividends received from the invested and by the investor's share of invested's losses.
▪ It expects to pay the reduced dividend August 1.
▪ On the other hand they are reluctant to reduce the dividend in response to a fall in distributable earnings.
▪ What may prove troubling to investors is the reduced dividend the split-up firms will pay.
tax
▪ Forbes, who is calling for a 17 percent flat rate, would not tax dividends, interest or capital gains.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Capital gains, dividends and other unearned income would not be taxed.
▪ Final dividend on shares is held at 2.25p, reflecting the upturn in business in recent months.
▪ For equity funds, the final column provides 52-week returns based on market prices plus dividends.
▪ Most firms appear to have a target payout ratio of dividends to long-run reported earnings.
▪ Profits reinvested in the corporation are available to finance future growth of the corporation or to pay future dividends.
▪ The dividend will be payable on June 10 to shareholders of record on May 29.
▪ These societies would have the duty of distributing the dividends from the shares on either a universal or a restricted basis.