Definition of stock dividend
1
: the payment by a corporation of a dividend in the form of shares usually of its own stock without change in par value — compare stock split
2
: the stock distributed in a stock dividend
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The company recently approved a three-for-two stock split in the form of a 50% stock dividend.
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Trefis Team, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
The company paid out a 98-cent stock dividend in the quarter.
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Diego Mendoza-moyers, ExpressNews.com, 30 July 2020
The company also suspended stock dividends and corporate stock buy-backs and also curtailed capital spending.
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oregonlive, 1 May 2020
In the time between the Oct. 29, 2018 crash in Indonesia and the March 10, 2019 crash in Ethiopia, the company increased its stock dividend from $1.71 per share to $2.05 per share.
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Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
Christina Rexrode Bank of New York Mellon and State Street, rival trust banks, unveil plans to buy back billions of dollars in stock and boost their quarterly stock dividends.
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WSJ, 28 June 2017
But during that same period, stock dividends rose 31%, a trend that favors the wealthy given that the richest 1% own half of all stocks.
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2020
About 30 percent of the income that's paid out every year goes to people who own assets, receive stock dividends, earn interest, et cetera.
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Ben Mitchell, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2019
Those shares, which would grant workers corporate voting rights and entitle them to stock dividends, would be held in Democratic Employee Ownership Funds managed by trustees elected by workers.
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Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2019
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