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  2. Employees Provident Fund (Malaysia) - Wikipedia

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    Legally, the EPF is only obligated to provide 2.5% dividends (as per Section 27 of the Employees Provident Fund Act 1991). [8] The EPF claims that the lowered dividend is the result of its decision to invest in low-risk fixed revenue instruments, which produce lower returns but maintains the principal value of its members' contributions.

  3. How Dividend Per Share Is Calculated - AOL

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    Dividend per share allows investors in a business to determine how much dividend income they will receive per share of their common stock. Dividends are the portion of profit that a company ...

  4. Dividend stocks: What they are and how to invest in them - AOL

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    Payment date: This is the day investors will receive the dividend payment. How to invest in dividend stocks Oil titan John D. Rockefeller Sr. once said that seeing his dividends come in were the ...

  5. Dividend payout ratio - Wikipedia

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    The dividend payout ratio is calculated as DPS/EPS. According to Financial Accounting by Walter T. Harrison, the calculation for the payout ratio is as follows: Payout Ratio = (Dividends - Preferred Stock Dividends)/Net Income. The dividend yield is given by earnings yield times the dividend payout ratio:

  6. Return on equity - Wikipedia

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    The return on equity (ROE) is a measure of the profitability of a business in relation to its equity; [1] where: . ROE = ⁠ Net Income / Average Shareholders' Equity ⁠ [1] Thus, ROE is equal to a fiscal year's net income (after preferred stock dividends, before common stock dividends), divided by total equity (excluding preferred shares), expressed as a percentage.

  7. Special dividend - Wikipedia

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    The ex-dividend date, i.e. the first date in which a new buyer of shares would not be entitled to the dividend, is the business day prior to the record date (see ex-dividend date for exceptions). In the case of a special dividend of 25% or more, however, special rules that are quite different apply.

  8. Common stock dividend - Wikipedia

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    A common stock dividend is the dividend paid to common stock owners from the profits of the company. Like other dividends, the payout is in the form of either cash or stock. The law may regulate the size of the common stock dividend particularly when the payout is a cash distribution tantamount to a liquidation.

  9. Earnings per share - Wikipedia

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    Earnings per share (EPS) is the monetary value of earnings per outstanding share of common stock for a company during a defined period of time. It is a key measure of corporate profitability, focusing on the interests of the company's owners (shareholders), [1] and is commonly used to price stocks.