What does dividend mean?

Dividend means that if a joint-stock company makes a profit every year, it pays a certain amount of stock interest to shareholders according to the proportion of shares held by shareholders. Dividend is a kind of return for the joint-stock company to investors. Dividends are usually paid to investors after drawing the statutory reserve fund from the company's profits. Under normal circumstances, ordinary shareholders can enjoy the company's dividends, and only listed companies can get dividends when they make profits that year.

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What's the difference between dividends and dividends?

1, the number is different: the dividend yield is relatively fixed, but the dividend is really not fixed, depending on the operating conditions of listed companies;

2. Different time: Dividends are generally distributed at the end of the year or the beginning of the following year, and sometimes distributed in multiple times. Dividends are mainly paid at the beginning of the second year, generally in one lump sum;

3. Different targets: Dividends are generally targeted at ordinary shareholders of the company, while preferred shareholders mainly enjoy dividend income and do not participate in dividends.

There is also fund dividend, which means that the fund distributes part of the income to fund investors in cash, which is originally a part of the net value of the fund unit. Therefore, investors actually get the assets on their books, which is why the net value of fund shares fell on the day of dividends (ex-dividend date).