How to Use stock dividend in a Sentence

stock dividend

noun

• To conserve cash, the lender will suspend its stock dividend.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2023
• The company paid out a 98-cent stock dividend in the quarter.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 30 July 2020
• Businesses to date have largely used their tax windfall to buy back shares and pay bigger stock dividends.
  — Mark Zandi, Philly.com, 25 May 2018
• That gives the bank the ability to boost its stock dividend and share buybacks, pending board approval.
  — Emily Glazer, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• This will then be distributed as a stock dividend to Lennar shareholders.
  — Joe Cornell, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• The stock dividend goes first to the mutual fund, which holds onto it temporarily.
  — Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2022
• The company recently approved a three-for-two stock split in the form of a 50% stock dividend.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• How does bond interest stack up against the income-producing potential of stock dividends?
  — Wes Moss, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Both are senior to common stock in the unlikely event of bankruptcy, and the stock dividend would vanish well before those payments dry up.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• Vance also made hundreds of thousands in investment income from holdings such as real estate rental fees and stock dividends.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2024
• 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.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2020
• The company will also suspend its fourth-quarter stock dividend as part of a broader plan to cut costs, Gelsinger said during the earnings call.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
• Streaming your favorite song and getting a fractional payment of those royalties is much sexier than a blue-chip stock dividend.
  — Elan Jacoby, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2022
• 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.
  — Ben Mitchell, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2019
• Annual stock dividend payouts increased over 12 times, while the remaining price-only return grew forty-four times.
  — Wes Moss, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Convertible bonds start life as interest-paying corporate bonds, paying more than the firm’s stock dividend if there is one, but slightly less than its ordinary bonds.
  — Jeff Brown, WSJ, 8 July 2018
• And that has been understood to mean that the government may impose taxes on wages or earnings and stock dividends, but not on property or corporate wealth that grows in value.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• The company is scrambling to shore up reserves by introducing layoffs and suspending stock dividends.
  — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 2 Aug. 2024
• Their leaders have to keep dealmakers focused on big returns while satisfying shareholders’ desire for steady profits and stock dividends.
  — Dawn Lim, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
• Investment income that mostly flows to the richest households, such as capital gains and stock dividends, is usually subject to state income taxes.
  — Steve Wamhoff, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
• The company also suspended stock dividends and corporate stock buy-backs and also curtailed capital spending.
  — oregonlive, 1 May 2020
• Critics have called such announcements nothing more than publicity stunts, and some experts have said companies will likely spend much of the tax cut proceeds on stock dividends and buying back their own shares, a move that can boost stock prices.
  — Deon Roberts, charlotteobserver, 8 Jan. 2018
• Notably, the company completed a 20-for-one stock split in the form of a one-time special stock dividend in mid-July, making its stock a lot more affordable to the retail investor.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• The state’s single-payer program would be paid for through a combination of existing federal and state health care funding, plus new payroll taxes and a progressive tax on non-payroll income like stock dividends.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 3 Aug. 2018
• Tesla shares jumped 8% in midday trading Monday after disclosing plans for a stock split likely aimed at increasing retail investor interest and enabling a stock dividend.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2022
• Estate tax While the Forbes list tracks those who are still working or at least collecting stock dividends, Connecticut also has ultra-wealthy families who are paying the state’s estate tax.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2024
• That decision was generally understood to mean that the government may impose taxes on wages or stock dividends, but not necessarily on property or corporate wealth that grows in value.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
• While both have two adults and two children, their income from their salaries and other cash flows – including everything from stock dividends to Social Security benefits – is different.
  — Leila Gautham, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2026
• Unlike interest generated by savings accounts, certificates of deposit, stock dividends or other investment vehicles, gold produces no income until it is sold.
  — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025
• While Disney employees are feeling pain from the announcement, Iger also took steps on Wednesday to reward shareholders by planning to reinstate the company’s stock dividend payments.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023