Generally speaking, most companies turn over only about half of their earnings to stockholders as dividends.
Outside accountants signed off, allowing the owners to take cash out of the bank as dividends.
A part of the proceeds was distributed as dividends to every Alaskan.
In 1970 for every £100 of profit earned, £10 was paid out as dividends.
Under poison pills, companies distribute convertible stock as dividends to existing shareholders.
After 2000, however, it chose not to tax profits at all until they are distributed to shareholders as dividends.
The new law eliminates the tax-free aspect to this transaction, because it treats the swap payments as dividends.
He turned IMCO's profits over to Continental Investment - in tax-free Lichtenstein-to be salted away & doled out as dividends.
REITs instead pay out most of their income as dividends to investors, who are taxed at individual rates.
Unlike their counterparts in Japan or Korea they are likely to return it as dividends or buy-backs.
Tata, India's most valuable company and largest software exporter, received 1,050 crore as dividends from overseas subsidiaries in 2013.
