The phrase 'extraordinary dividend' is correct and usable in written English, and can refer to a dividend that is considered or declared to be extraordinary.
For example, "The company paid an extraordinary dividend of $1,000 per share."
A Delaware judge refused to block Regal Entertainment Group, the theater chain operator, from paying a $5 a share extraordinary dividend.
Jr. 800, that a dividend representing profits, whether in cash, stock or other property, belongs to the life tenant if it was a regular or ordinary dividend, and belongs to the remainderman if it was an extraordinary dividend.
Council officials now have to show that its costs are manageable and justified: they plan to ask Lothian Buses, the publicly owned company which runs the trams, to use £5m saved from dividends and then raise another £20m from an extraordinary dividend to help pay for it.
But it actually paid the British seller more than that, using about $2.2 billion of the target company's own money in the form of an "extraordinary dividend". By the time all the money changed hands, Apollo had paid only $400 million of its own funds for the prize.
That has left Viacom with the option of either giving its Blockbuster shares to shareholders as an extraordinary dividend or splitting off the chain as a separate company and inviting Viacom shareholders to give up their stock in exchange for equity in Blockbuster.
Real Estate Investment Trusts are excluded from this list, as are companies with one-time, extraordinary dividend payouts.
The stubborn loyalty of the hotel's regulars has, at times, paid extraordinary dividends.
"A lot will depend on how the proposal deals with extraordinary dividends," said David Hariton, a tax partner at the large New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, referring to dividends of at least 10percentt of a share's value.
Extraordinary dividends are subject to special treatment, but a rise in Microsoft's current stock price of slightly less than $2 a share would keep it from being extraordinary and would provide an incentive for both American corporations and some individual investors to leap into the stock for a short-term, tax-oriented trade.
No small feat, but one that will pay extraordinary dividends.
But that is largely true for every issue that involves a captive, where a "question everything" approach will more often than not pay extraordinary dividends in one form or another.
