Dividend Stocks List
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Symbol | Grade | Name | Weight | |
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BUFB | C | Innovator Laddered Allocation Buffer ETF | 8.29 | |
CCEF | A | Calamos CEF Income & Arbitrage ETF | 3.51 | |
PCEF | A | PowerShares CEF Income Composite Portfolio | 2.66 | |
CEFD | B | ETRACS Monthly Pay 1.5X Leveraged Closed-End Fund Index ETN | 2.39 |
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Sep 2 | SPYD | SPYD: Can Be Beaten On Yield And Total Return |
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A dividend is a payment made by a corporation to its shareholders, usually as a distribution of profits. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, the corporation is able to re-invest the profit in the business (called retained earnings) and pay a proportion of the profit as a dividend to shareholders. Distribution to shareholders may be in cash (usually a deposit into a bank account) or, if the corporation has a dividend reinvestment plan, the amount can be paid by the issue of further shares or share repurchase.A dividend is allocated as a fixed amount per share with shareholders receiving a dividend in proportion to their shareholding. For the joint-stock company, paying dividends is not an expense; rather, it is the division of after-tax profits among shareholders. Retained earnings (profits that have not been distributed as dividends) are shown in the shareholders' equity section on the company's balance sheet – the same as its issued share capital. Public companies usually pay dividends on a fixed schedule, but may declare a dividend at any time, sometimes called a special dividend to distinguish it from the fixed schedule dividends. Cooperatives, on the other hand, allocate dividends according to members' activity, so their dividends are often considered to be a pre-tax expense.
The word "dividend" comes from the Latin word "dividendum" ("thing to be divided").
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