stock dividend

  • 1stock dividend — See: dividend Category: Business, LLCs & Corporations → Business Accounting, Bookkeeping & Finances Category: Business Cash Flow Problems & Bankruptcy Category: Business, LLCs & Corporations → Business Tax & Deductions Category: Personal Finance… …

    Law dictionary

  • 2stock dividend — n. 1. a dividend in the form of shares of stock 2. the payment of such a dividend …

    English World dictionary

  • 3stock dividend — Payment of a corporate dividend in the form of stock rather than cash. The stock dividend may be additional shares in the company, or it may be shares in a subsidiary being spun off to shareholders. Stock dividends are often used to conserve cash …

    Financial and business terms

  • 4Stock dividend — Payment of a corporate dividend in the form of stock rather than cash. The stock dividend may be additional shares in the company, or it may be shares in a subsidiary being spun off to shareholders. Stock dividends are often used to conserve cash …

    Financial and business terms

  • 5stock dividend — noun a dividend paid in stock rather than in cash • Hypernyms: ↑dividend * * * noun 1. : the payment by a corporation of a dividend in the form of additional shares of its own stock compare split up 2. : the stock distributed in a stock dividend …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 6stock dividend — A dividend paid by a corporation in stock of the corporation or in stock which the corporation holds in another corporation. Liebman v Auto. Strop Co. 241 NY 427, 150 NE 505. A corporate dividend payable in stock instead of cash, the declaration… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 7stock dividend — noun Date: circa 1902 1. the payment by a corporation of a dividend in the form of shares usually of its own stock without change in par value compare stock split 2. the stock distributed in a stock dividend …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 8Stock Dividend — A dividend payment made in the form of additional shares, rather than a cash payout. Also known as a scrip dividend. Companies may decide to distribute stock to shareholders of record if the company s availability of liquid cash is in short… …

    Investment dictionary

  • 9stock dividend — stock′ div idend n. 1) bus a dividend given in extra shares of a corporation s stock rather than in cash 2) bus the stock thus received …

    From formal English to slang

  • 10stock dividend — Finance. 1. a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation s stock rather than in cash. 2. the stock received in such a dividend. [1900 05] * * * …

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