dividend
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BDCs have long been popular with individual investors because of their high dividend yields, and they typically lend to middle-market companies with speculative-grade credit.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Chevron’s 3.7% dividend yield is among the best in the industry.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
Western Digital reported a $3.21 billion profit and boosted its quarterly dividend by 20%; Sandisk approved a $6 billion stock buyback.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
The stock’s dividend is around 1.3%, with decades of consecutive increases.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
The companies paid high dividends, and their shares were often costly to borrow: New Century, for instance, paid a 20 percent dividend, and its shares cost 12 percent a year to borrow.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing dividend
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