Dividends and Share Repurchases

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Dividends are a portion of the company profits paid out to its shareholders. When a company earns a ...

A company can pay dividends in many different forms. The most common form of dividend payment is cas...

In its most common form, a company may decide to pay dividends in the form of cash based on a schedu...

Stock dividends are the dividends paid in the form of new stock rather than cash. This is also known...

A stock split refers to a situation where a company decides to split each share into multiple shares...

Once a company has decided to pay the dividends, the dividend payment process starts. The dividend p...

A share repurchase refers to a transaction where a company buys back its own previously issued share...

Since the company uses its own cash or borrows money to buy back shares, [share repurchases](https:/...

Both the cash dividends and share repurchase of same value have equivalent effect on the wealth of t...