How to Use dividend in a Sentence

dividend

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  • Sometimes an expense taken to help someone out may pay more dividends than something that makes sense on a balance sheet.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2024
  • American businesses are going to be blessed, and our shareholders are going to reap healthy dividends for decades to come.
    — Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
  • The good news is that the area of dividends and money interests that involve other people attracts a generous uplift.
    — Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
  • Some of the other people floated could have yielded a political and fundraising dividend that Vance won’t.
    — Megan McArdle, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
  • The energy company’s shares fell as much as 4.4%, the steepest decline in more than a year, amid market concerns over its dividend prospects.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune Europe, 3 May 2024
  • His cannonball plunge into the recruiting waters has paid big dividends with the Class of 2025, and beyond.
    — Chris Hays, Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • The company reiterated its outlook for the year, which aims for profit growth of 1% to 2% and confirmed a dividend of 30 euro cents per share.
    — Clara Hernanz Lizarraga, Fortune Europe, 9 May 2024
  • The amount from the 2022 dividend was one of the largest in the program's history.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In a nutshell, the bigger the discount, the less a fund needs to earn to cover the dividend.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The dividend will be payable on Dec. 15 to shareholders of record at the close of business on Dec. 1.
    — Serenah McKay, arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The dividend of up to $25 million will be declared in the third quarter.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 May 2023
  • The stock trades at 23 times forward earnings and comes with a 1.5% dividend yield.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • But there’s a good reason why: a rising dividend is the No. 1 driver of share prices.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The South African gold miner trades at a 90% discount to its book value, has no long-term debt and pays a dividend of .77%.
    — John Navin, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • This one is an investment, for sure, but one that will pay in stylish dividends.
    — Paula Lee, Glamour, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The $2,700 dividend in the House’s budget was pitched as a compromise, along with the extra one-time funding for schools.
    — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • No lucky Green Bay fan will get rich off the team’s next Super Bowl win because the stock pays no dividends and isn’t tradeable or saleable.
    — Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 7 Sep. 2023
  • His 90 percent stake in the business and the dividends he’s received combine for a fortune of $7.6 billion.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Paramount Global cut its dividend to 5 cents a share from 24 cents.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 May 2023
  • The bank also says a dividend cut instead of equity raise could be announced as a stop-gap for the balance sheet.
    — WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Hopes of being able to invest and live on dividends and interest are back!
    — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
  • The Senate’s plan includes a $1,300 dividend that would balance the budget with no draw from savings.
    — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
  • And many governments on the continent did not widely share the dividends of economic growth in the boom years.
    — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Yvette Ingabire, who is from Rwanda, feels the program can pay big dividends for women beyond just sports.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • Lui says that this restructuring would unlock value, increase the bank’s dividends, and add more than 40% to the share price.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 4 May 2023
  • What’s perhaps more concerning is the profits meant to pay that dividend.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Qualified dividends are also taxed at the long-term rate.
    — Anna-Louise Jackson, wsj.com, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Today, members of the tribe receive tens of thousands of dollars in dividends.
    — Cary Spivak, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
  • That’s much, much too expensive for a non-grower sporting a 0.5% dividend yield.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The Senate, meanwhile, has moved ahead with a $1,300 dividend and a spending plan that does not require drawing from savings.
    — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023

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