payout
DefinitionA taxable payment declared by a company's board of directors and given to its shareholders out of the company's current or retained earnings, usually quarterly. Payouts are usually given as cash (cash dividend), but they can also take the form of stock (stock dividend) or other property. Payouts provide an incentive to own stock in stable companies even if they are not experiencing much growth. Companies are not required to pay payouts. The companies that offer payouts are most often companies that have progressed beyond the growth phase, and no longer benefit sufficiently by reinvesting their profits, so they usually choose to pay them out to their shareholders. also called dividend.
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payout is ...
... part of the Dividends and Investor Relations subjects.
... part of the Dividends and Investor Relations subjects.
Related Terms
ex-date -
ex-dividend date, interest rate cap, participating dividend, reinvestment, reinvestment date, variable death benefit, actuarial assumption, annuity unit, dual-purpose fund, pension benefit
payout appears in these other terms
payout ratio, dividend payout, dividend payout ratio, payout period
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