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The Motley Fool: What's a dividend?
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The Motley Fool: What's a dividend?
Ask the Fool: What’s a dividend? Q. What’s a dividend? — D.S., Rochester, Minnesota A. It’s a portion of a company’s earnings that’s paid to shareholders. Imagine that each year Scruffy’s Chicken Shack (ticker: BUKBUK) earns $6 per share and pays out $2 per share — or $0.50 per quarter. So someone owning, say, 100 shares will receive $50 each quarter, totaling $200 over the year. It gets better, because healthy and growing dividend-paying compan…
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