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Cash dividends are payouts of a company's profits to its shareholders. Issued by a company's board of directors, dividends are often paid quarterly. When a corporation issues dividend payments to its ...

Dividends are a return of cash flow. Companies have a long list of items that use cash flow, most of which come before dividends. If you don't understand a company's balance sheet, you could end up ...

Many investors focus on how much a company pays in dividends. Most companies report their dividends on a cash-flow statement or in a separate accounting summary in their regular disclosures to ...

While most dividends are paid in cash, some companies choose to pay dividends in stock. This situation can arise when a company has a legal obligation to pay a dividend, but does not have enough ...

Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) pays an annual dividend of $3.96 per share, yielding 3.38%. The company has raised its dividend for 43 consecutive years, maintaining that streak through the 2020 oil price ...

Famed industrialist John D. Rockefeller once quipped that the only thing that gave him pleasure was to see his dividends coming in. A lot of income investors feel that same way, especially those that ...

Telus hit pause on growing its dividend and will scale back its discounted dividend reinvestment plans as the communications-technology company looks to bolster its balance sheet.

The world is shifting, driving inefficiencies in global trade of bulk commodities that benefit maritime shipping. Genco's strengthening balance sheet reduces its exposure to raising rates. Genco is ...

The global beverage giant generates durable and growing cash flows.

Severn Trent, one of the UK’s biggest water companies, has announced plans to hike its full-year dividend despite coming under fire for artificially inflating its balance sheet using an accounting ...

One of the last things an income investor wants to experience is a dividend cut. That's particularly true if you are trying to live off the cash your portfolio generates, perhaps as a supplement to ...