dividend

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Business development companies, or BDCs, typically make high-interest loans to midsize corporations with junk credit ratings, using income from the loans to pay big dividends to their investors.

From The Wall Street Journal

Carnival will return to the ranks of dividend payers for the first time in more than five years.

From MarketWatch

The firm used cash from newer investors to pay part of the promised monthly dividends to earlier fund backers.

From The Wall Street Journal

But his shares have been frozen, depriving the oligarch of dividends and influence in the company.

From Barron's

For starters, dividends have accounted for roughly 40% of stock market returns for the past century and have been paid by companies for hundreds of years.

From Barron's