What Are Dividend Payments

question 25

Multiple Choice

What are dividend payments?

• A)payments made to a company by investors for a share of the ownership of that company
• B)incremental increases in the value of the stock held by an investor due to rises in share price
• C)the difference between the original cost price of a share and the price an investor receives when that share is sold
• D)a part share of the profits or earnings of a company paid to each shareholder on the basis of the number of shares they hold
• E)periodic payments to the bondholders

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Definitions:

Main Effect

Effect of an independent variable on the dependent variable within a factorial research design.

Simple Effect

Effect of one independent variable at one of the levels of another independent variable.

Independent Variable

The factor in a study that the experimenter alters to see how it impacts the outcome variable.

Dependent Variable

A variable in an experiment or study whose changes depend on the manipulation of the independent variable.