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means A share of a company's profits paid out to its shareholders, or more broadly any sum to be divided and distributed.
from From Latin 'dividendum,' meaning 'thing to be divided' — the gerundive of 'dividere,' to split or separate (the same root that gives us 'divide' and 'division'). It entered English in the 15th century as a mathematical and legal term for an amount to be portioned out, long before it settled into its modern financial home of profits sliced among owners.
- oldest payer
- a Dutch shipping firm paid since 1602
- reinvested power
- most stock returns historically came from compounding dividends
- the cut
- slashing one can crater a stock overnight
- aristocrats
- some firms raised payouts 50-plus years straight
- hidden tax
- you owe even if you never sell
apple quarterly dividend — apple paid $0.24 per share in q1 2024, one of the largest tech dividend payers
coca-cola dividend streak — 61 consecutive years of dividend increases as of 2024, longest in s&p 500
berkshire hathaway buyback — warren buffett repurchases shares instead of paying dividends, returning $84.7 billion in 2023