regular dividend

collocation in English

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regular
adjective
uk
/ˈreɡ.jə.lər/us
/ˈreɡ.jə.lɚ/
happening or doing ...
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dividend
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɪv.ɪ.dend/us
/ˈdɪv.ə.dend/
(a part of) the profit of a company that is paid to the people who own shares ...
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They give their investors a capital gain at the end of a fixed period rather than aregulardividendor return on their bonds from year to year.
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Investors who purchased these stocks receive theirregulardividendregardless of company performance (assuming the company does well enough to make its annual dividend payments).
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It has enabled mortgage business for house construction and house purchase to expand, and with it the prospect of respectable profits and regular dividends.
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Preferred stock is similar to debt in that it gets paid before common stock; it also pays regular dividends that are similar to interest.
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Regular dividends were paid to shareholders from 1811, although some had been paid in previous years.
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Thus, they say that investors prefer those firms which pay regular dividends and such dividends affect the market price of the share.
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Throughout the entire nineteenth century, the bank, nationally chartered in 1865, never defaulted on its obligations and from 1824 paid its shareholders regular dividends.
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Dividends were paid to shareholders in 1795, 1817, 1818 and 1824, but profits had improved by 1826, and regular dividends were then paid.
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Now it pays hefty regular dividends to its complacent shareholders.
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Regular dividends are recorded as dividend income whenever they are declared.
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The whole work had cost in the region of 877,000 and it was some years before it began to make a profit, although regular dividends had been paid to shareholders.
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In 1966, voters repealed this blanket probation, allowing up to 25 percent of pension assets to be invested in stocks of companies that pay regular dividends.
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