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  • 1payout — pay‧out [ˈpeɪ aʊt] noun [countable] 1. FINANCE a large sum of money, given to someone for the work they have done: • an increase in commission payouts for some top producing brokers 2. INSURANCE a payment made to someone who has made an insurance …

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  • 2payout — n. A taxable payment, such as a dividend, drawn from a company’s earnings and made by that company to its shareholders. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 …

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  • 3payout — (n.) 1904, from PAY (Cf. pay) (v.) + OUT (Cf. out). Originally of oil wells that produced enough to justify the expense of drilling them …

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  • 4payout — /peiˈaut, ingl. ˈpeɪˌaut/ s. m. inv. (borsa) distribuzione dei dividendi …

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  • 5payout — [pā′out΄] n. 1. a paying out; disbursement 2. an amount paid out, as from earnings; dividend …

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  • 6Payout — The expected financial return from an investment over a given period of time. Payout may be expressed on an overall or periodic basis as either a percentage of the investment s cost or in a real dollar amount. Payout can also refer to the period… …

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  • 7Payout Ratio — The amount of earnings paid out in dividends to shareholders. Investors can use the payout ratio to determine what companies are doing with their earnings. Calculated as: For example, a very low payout ratio indicates that a company is primarily… …

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  • 8Payout ratio — Generally, the proportion of earnings paid out to the common stockholders as cash dividends. More specifically, the firm s cash dividend divided by the firm s earnings in the same reporting period. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * *… …

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  • 9payout ratio — Generally, the proportion of earnings paid out to the common stockholders as dividends. More specifically, the firm s cash dividend divided by the firm s earnings in the same reporting period. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * payout ratio… …

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  • 10Payout — Pay out, Pay|out [ peɪaʊt ], das; s, s [engl. payout = Auszahlung, aus: to pay out = auszahlen] (Wirtsch.): Rückgewinnung investierten Kapitals. * * * Pay|out, (auch:) Pay out [ peɪaʊt], das; s [engl. payout = Auszahlung, aus: to pay out =… …

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