They may also pass on a new 10% tax on dividends by cutting payouts to shareholders.
In places, though, Gabriel's approach pays dividends by casting new, unexpected light on familiar material.
Big oil producers are the same, he says: they pay their dividends by increasing debt.
In the process, both sides could earn economic dividends by addressing Iran's pressing infrastructure and technology needs.
Many analysts say Mr. Putin stands to gain big political dividends by confronting the unpopular and hugely wealthy oligarchs.
"We can reap terrific dividends by talking to these young people directly in a way they understand".
Many investors, and political leaders in both parties, have lobbied for tax cuts on capital gains and dividends by arguing that they spur investment and, therefore, job creation.
With a nod to gripes about its falling share price, Apple will now return $100 billion to investors through share buy-backs and dividends by 2015.
Citigroup turned a profit of $2.2 billion and said it hoped to reinstate shareholder dividends by 2012 as it emerges from government oversight.
That effort, based in the agency's New Mission Development Centre in the Menwith Hill air force base in North Yorkshire, was already paying dividends by May 2008.
In the end, though, the equation is simple: banks, like all mature companies, need their earnings to exceed their dividends by a comfortable margin.
