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
Weigh the short interest ratio. A stock's short interest ratio (SIR) offers similar information to the short-to-float ratio, but the format is somewhat different. The SIR indicates how many trading days it would take to cover (i.e., buy back) all existing shorted shares at the stock's average daily trading volume. To arrive at this number, the total short interest on a given stock is divided by the equity's typical daily volume.