A shareholder gets a portion of the companies profits when a dividend is paid.
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The word you are thinking of is dividend and it refers to an amount of money that is paid out to shareholders of a company on a quarterly basis.
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Divisor: the number by which a dividend is divided Dividend: a number to be divided
Dividend : Divisor = Quotient
In a division problem, the ___ is the number that "goes into" the dividend