How to Use stock dividend in a Sentence

stock dividend

noun

• The company paid out a 98-cent stock dividend in the quarter.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 30 July 2020
• To conserve cash, the lender will suspend its stock dividend.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2023
• The company recently approved a three-for-two stock split in the form of a 50% stock dividend.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• That gives the bank the ability to boost its stock dividend and share buybacks, pending board approval.
  — Emily Glazer, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• But during that same period, stock dividends rose 31%, a trend that favors the wealthy given that the richest 1% own half of all stocks.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2020
• Businesses to date have largely used their tax windfall to buy back shares and pay bigger stock dividends.
  — Mark Zandi, Philly.com, 25 May 2018
• The stock dividend goes first to the mutual fund, which holds onto it temporarily.
  — Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2022
• Both are senior to common stock in the unlikely event of bankruptcy, and the stock dividend would vanish well before those payments dry up.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• About 30 percent of the income that's paid out every year goes to people who own assets, receive stock dividends, earn interest, et cetera.
  — Ben Mitchell, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2019
• Notably, the company completed a 20-for-one stock split in the form of a one-time special stock dividend in mid-July, making its stock a lot more affordable to the retail investor.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• And that has been understood to mean that the government may impose taxes on wages or earnings and stock dividends, but not on property or corporate wealth that grows in value.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• If validated in court, the suit would also bless the board’s plan to issue a special stock dividend to massively dilute the Redstones’ voting power in CBS from about 80 percent to 17 percent.
  — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 14 May 2018
• Streaming your favorite song and getting a fractional payment of those royalties is much sexier than a blue-chip stock dividend.
  — Elan Jacoby, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2022
• Convertible bonds start life as interest-paying corporate bonds, paying more than the firm’s stock dividend if there is one, but slightly less than its ordinary bonds.
  — Jeff Brown, WSJ, 8 July 2018
• Combined with stock dividend payments over the previous year, money returned to shareholders in S&P 500 companies topped $1 trillion for the first time, Silverblatt said.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• Critics have called such announcements nothing more than publicity stunts, and some experts have said companies will likely spend much of the tax cut proceeds on stock dividends and buying back their own shares, a move that can boost stock prices.
  — Deon Roberts, charlotteobserver, 8 Jan. 2018
• Investment income that mostly flows to the richest households, such as capital gains and stock dividends, is usually subject to state income taxes.
  — Steve Wamhoff, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
• The state’s single-payer program would be paid for through a combination of existing federal and state health care funding, plus new payroll taxes and a progressive tax on non-payroll income like stock dividends.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 3 Aug. 2018
• Their leaders have to keep dealmakers focused on big returns while satisfying shareholders’ desire for steady profits and stock dividends.
  — Dawn Lim, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
• Those shares, which would grant workers corporate voting rights and entitle them to stock dividends, would be held in Democratic Employee Ownership Funds managed by trustees elected by workers.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2019
• Tesla shares jumped 8% in midday trading Monday after disclosing plans for a stock split likely aimed at increasing retail investor interest and enabling a stock dividend.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2022
• While Disney employees are feeling pain from the announcement, Iger also took steps on Wednesday to reward shareholders by planning to reinstate the company’s stock dividend payments.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
• The company also suspended stock dividends and corporate stock buy-backs and also curtailed capital spending.
  — oregonlive, 1 May 2020

Last Updated: 31 Aug 2024