Freebase (1.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition: Dividend. Dividends are payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members. It is the portion of corporate profits paid out to stockholders. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, that money can be put to two uses: it can either be re-invested in the business, or it can be distributed to shareholders.
short list [BACK TO TOP] Meaning: A list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen
Short Selling. The short in short interest refers to short selling. If you expect the price of a particular stock to fall, you can profit off that falling price by executing a short sale. In a short sale, you borrow shares of the target stock from a broker and sell them at the current market price.