The phrase "average dividend" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial contexts to refer to the mean amount of dividends paid by a company over a specific period.
Example: "Investors often look for stocks with a stable average dividend to ensure a reliable income stream."
Alternatives: "mean dividend" or "typical dividend".
The average dividend yield is now a miserable 0.8%.
On average, dividend payers won the February race in the consumer staples sector through Thursday.
The average dividend yield was 7.52percentt, versus 5.29percentt for the property-holding equity REITs.
Through the 1990's, the average dividend payout was 50percentt.
Last year, the average dividend payment shrank by 3.3%, the biggest drop in 50 years.
Before the 1990's, stocks invariably entered a major bear market when their average dividend yield dropped to 3percentt.
With average dividends of just 6 percent, these investment vehicles could substantially reduce the cost of financing renewables.
REITs have a market capitalization of over $440 billion while paying shareholders average dividends below 10 percent — roughly a third of the cost of tax equity investments for renewable energy.
After sampling more than 2 million individual total return figures, Fuller and Goldstein discovered that, on average, dividend-paying firms achieved a monthly return of 1.4%, while stocks that paid no dividends managed only 0.9%.
As a group, they claim to be prepared to accept above average investment risk as they would need to do to get the market beating returns they expect yet they report conservative investment behavior, saying they are most interested in investing in companies with higher than average dividends, and then in companies not tied to economic cycles, such as food companies.
Why do you look for companies with above-average dividend yields?
