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However, the new dividend yield at today's share price would only amount to roughly 0.8%. In addition to the dividend hike, Microsoft also authorized a $60 billion share buyback program.
Microsoft's dividend-growth streak could make you take a second look.
Second, and more directly, this will mean a windfall for current and future shareholders. Anyone who owns Microsoft stock receives quarterly dividend payments. Those payments will now increase by 10%.
The dividend yield or dividend–price ratio of a share is the dividend per share divided by the price per share. [1] It is also a company's total annual dividend payments divided by its market capitalization, assuming the number of shares is constant. It is often expressed as a percentage.
A prominent example of a special dividend was the $3 dividend announced by Microsoft in 2004, to partially relieve its balance sheet of a large cash balance. [1] A more recent example of a special dividend is the $1 dividend announced by SAIC (U.S. company) in 2013, just prior to it splitting off its solutions business into a new company named ...
Market regulators occasionally change the supervisory rules governing market trading, with the consequence of changing the ex-dividend date formulas. For example, in September 2017 the SEC shortened the T+3 rule to T+2 in U.S. securities markets, resulting in subsequent ex-dividend dates being a day later than they would have been before the ...
Microsoft may not offer the biggest dividend, but its impressive dividend streak is worth watching. Want $1,000 in Dividend Income? Here's How Much You Have to Invest in Microsoft Stock
In financial economics, the dividend discount model (DDM) is a method of valuing the price of a company's capital stock or business value based on the assertion that intrinsic value is determined by the sum of future cash flows from dividend payments to shareholders, discounted back to their present value.