股利；股息（stock dividend）

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• Dividends: The Sweet Spot:

"Even if stocks go nowhere this year—a distinct possibility as a recession looms—investors can get returns by hunting for companies that pay healthy dividends. You receive the company's quarterly payouts even if its stock, and the entire market, head south.

While this is a popular and often successful strategy during bear markets, it also entails some dangers. Watch out for stocks that offer an especially high dividend yield. That could signal that a company might not pay its dividend. For example, since the credit crisis began in July, financial firms have been disappointing investors by slashing dividends."

• The Secret of Dividends:

"Between January 1926 and December 2006, 41% of the S&P 500's total return sprang not from the price appreciation of the stocks in the index, but from the dividends its companies paid out.

That's right -- a cool 41%. Annualized, that amounts to 4.4% of extra return each year. To put it in dollars-and-cents terms, consider this: An investment of $10,000 over that stretch of time would have grown to $1,013,000 without dividends. With dividends kicked in and reinvested, however, that same sum would have been worth a whopping $24,113,000 by the end of the period."<2008/03/12>

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