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1Preferred Dividend Coverage Ratio — A coverage ratio that measures a company s ability to pay off its required preferred dividend payments. A healthy company will have a high coverage ratio, indicating that it has little difficulty in paying off its preferred dividend requirements …
2Dividend stripping — is the purchase of shares just before a dividend is paid, and the sale of those shares after that payment, i.e. when they go ex dividend. This may be done either by an ordinary investor as an investment strategy, or by a company s owners or… …
3Dividend — This article is about financial dividends. For dividends in arithmetic, see Division (mathematics). Accountancy Key concepts Accountant · Accounting period · Bookkeeping · Cash and accrual basis  …
4Dividend yield — The dividend yield or the dividend price ratio on a company stock is the company s total annual dividend payments divided by its market capitalization, or the dividend per share, divided by the price per share. It is often expressed as a… …
5ratio — the proportional relationship of one thing to another * * * ratio ra‧ti‧o [ˈreɪʆiəʊ ǁ ˈreɪʆoʊ] noun [countable] a relationship between two amounts that is represented by a pair of numbers showing how much greater one amount is than the other: •… …
6Dividend policy — Accountancy Key concepts Accountant · Accounting period · Bookkeeping · Cash and accrual basis · Cash flow management · Chart of accounts  …
7Dividend swap — A dividend swap is an over the counter financial derivative contract (in particular a form of swap). It consists of a series of payments made between two parties at defined intervals over a fixed term (e.g., annually over 5 years). One party the… …
8Financial ratio — Corporate finance …
9P/E ratio — The P/E ratio (price to earnings ratio) of a stock (also called its earnings multiple, or simply multiple, P/E, or PE ) is a measure of the price paid for a share relative to the annual income or profit earned by the firm per share. [cite web|url …
10Short (finance) — Schematic representation of short selling in two steps. The short seller borrows shares and immediately sells them. He then waits, hoping for the stock price to decrease, when the seller can profit by purchasing the shares to return to the lender …
