What is the difference between DIVIDEND and INTEREST ?
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Interest = Cash/Debt\n\nInterest is a percentage cash payment regularly paid to a creditor from a lender according to an agreed-upon rate.  No shares are involved the only thing the lender owns is the debt itself.  (When you use a savings account in most cases you are the lender and the bank is the creditor.)\n\nDIVIDEND = Equity\n\nA Dividend is a payment to a shareholder based on ownership of some sort of non-cash, non-debt equity such as a share of stock, mutual fund, credit union share, or money market account.  Not all dividends are paid regularly, not all are paid in cash, and they are usually not based on published rates.
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When you get interest added to your principle, then when you get more interest, you get interest on the interest you already got also.\n\nBasically, getting interest on the interest you already got. Does that make sense?
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a. 10.9\n\n\nusing Gordon's dividend growht discount model, which is Dividends / (discount rate - growth), we see that:\n\n$1.80 (10.9% - 7%) = $46.15.\n\nof course, you have to use algebra to back into x, which was the 10.9%.
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In most cases, I would prefer a cash dividend. I have always felt that it should be up to the investor to decide whether or not to dividend reinvest. \n\nThere is a whole bunch of info related to this & other investment ideas at www.advancedwealthsolutions.com\n\nLots of luck
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That is correct, but if you want to know how to figure that rate for each month it is the % rate divided by 12 months (3.99/12).  It is also important to know how it it compounded (some figure interest daily, and you pay more interest.  soem figure monthly), because it can mean a big difference in the interest paid by the end of year, even if it is the same interest rate.
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Typically companies distribute their dividends quarterly.  Their is a date of record when the board of directors announces that the will pay a divident.  Then there is a payment date of the dividend which is usually posted with the date of record in the Wall Street Journal.  That is when the company pays its dividend.  It could be 45 days or more from the date of record.  If you have any questions about the stocks that you own you could call the investor relations people and they should give you a better idea of when and how much you should be receiving.
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Capital gains occur when the share price increases and the fund sells those shares - the gain is the selling price minus purchase price.\nDividends are payments made by the companies based somewhat on profits from the company.
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Dividend income is an OPERATING ACTIVITY. Dividends PAID are a financing activity.
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they will factor the fall into the spread.  They don't allow arbitage opportunities like this.  I thought I can buy a put on a prediviend payout stock that has a large dividend but that doesn't work either.  If you do short-sell a stock, you have to deduct the dividend and pay it to the owner of the stock that allowed you to borrow his stock for short-selling.
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All the above are wrong. They are describing the record date. The ex-date is the date on which the closing price of the dividend paying security has its closing price reduced by the amount of the dividend.
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The difference is in the control. FDI implies that the investor has some direct control of the enterprize s/he invests in (e.g. majority of shares).
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Current dividend yield Link 1\nPrices                 Link 2
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You only pay interest on the amount of time you borrow the money it's annualized because that is the amount you'll pay if you borrower the money for one year. It's always interest on (what you still owe) So if you make additional payments towards principal you will definitely pay it off sooner, and make permanent headway if it's a fixed payment.
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The more the Open Interest of the Promoters in the Co. mean\nthe more interest for them to run the business profitably, thereby\nreaping high dividend, income and wealth- hence invest
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Dividend is reported in % say 50% dividend. It is declared on the face value of the stock. If face value of the stock is $10 then 50% dividend means that the investors get $5 per share from the company.\n\nDividend yield = 100*(Dividend/Market price)\n\nIf current market price of a share is $50 and dividend is $5 per share then dividend yield is 10%. Dividend yield depends on daily market price and fluctuates with price.
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Two reasons - on the one hand, utilities have cash flows that are pretty much fixed, so whenever rates go up the present value of those CF is lower. On the other hand, utility stocks are mostly bought for their dividend features - if you have a dividend yield of 3% and rates go up to 6%, the stock doesnt look that good any more so people sell it until the lower price increases the dividend yield high enough.
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Reinvesting dividend is like purchasing new units at their market value. Most of the people use this option to save tax on long term capital gains that they would incur in growth option. \n\nTo calculate the returns, the simplest and the most logical way is to compare the market value of your investment incl that of the newly purchased units through dividend reinvestment while ignoring the dates of reinvestment. Further, if you wish to, you can annualize the returns and/or use appropriate inflation deflator to calculate the real returns.