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A corporation's responsibilities include increasing shareholder value. Dividends can play an important role in this regard. A company has to decide what to do with excess cash on its books but there are several options. They could reinvest that money into the company. This could be purchasing new equipment, hiring on new employees, expanding into new regions, etc etc. They could use the money to aquire another company. They could pay off debt. They could buyback their own shares. Last but not least they could pay out a dividend or increase existing dividends. It all comes down to what is the best way to return value to shareholders. Most new companies do not pay dividends because their best use for cash is to grow their business. On the other hand many utility companies pay nice dividends due to the fact that it would be difficult to use that money to expand in that type of business. Therefor giving it back to the shareholders so that they may invest it however they may choose to makes more sense. When increasing a dividend a corporation may look at trying to set it at a sustainable level. Decreasing a dividend is usually considered a bad sign and shares tend to decrease in value. One last thing to consider is the tax environment. The lower the capital gains taxes are the more important a dividend becomes to the individual shareholders.
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What are dividends paid on life insurance policies considered to be?
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Are dividends a form of a business expense?
No they are considered earnings to be paid to stockholders.
Dividends are paid from?
Dividends are paid from corporate profits.
Dividends per share is equal to dividends paid....?
Dividends paid divided by the toal number of shares outstanding.
What preference share is characterised by the property that should any dividends go unpaid those dividends must be paid before any future ordinary dividends?
cumulative preference share :)
How often are dividends paid?
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A corporation gives out its profits as dividends paid to its?
Stockholders
To whom and how are dividends usually paid?
Dividends are usually paid to the investors of a company. These are paid on an annual or, more commonly, a quarterly basis.
What is preference share?
Preference shares are shares whose dividends are paid out first before ordinary shares dividends. They so called (preference shares) because they have 'preference' over ordinary shares for payment of dividends.
Are dividends paid out of retained earnings?
Yes, the amount of x dividends paid will reduce retained earnings by x.
What is Paid up additional Insurance?
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.
