What is a dividen?

Answer 1

I think you mean dividend. Which in math is the number that is divided by a divisor. Such as in 23/456 the divisor is 456 and the dividend is 23. In financial markets it can refer to a few different things. The most well used is the portion of the profit (or reserves) of a publicly traded company that is paid out to stock holders in lieu of retaining as a capital gain and increasing the face value of the stock. Sometimes looked at by stockholders as a bonus. It can also represent the portion of an insolvent estate paid out to creditors. In essence it is the smaller portion in play of a larger sum of not completely available money.

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