What exactly are dividends?

What intrinsic value does any stock have if it never pays any dividends and has no plans to ever do so? I feel dumb for asking this question, but I've been thinking about it all day and only getting more and more confused. The debate in this thread only...

when i was studying financial management ... i read this sentence "Preferred Stockholders receive fixed dividends "" i know that preferred stockholders get the dividends before the common stock holder...and my questions is what does fixed...

If a person is retired, single with no dependent, over 60 years old, and his only income is the dividends on the stocks that he has purchased, does he still have to pay 40% tax on the dividends? For example, if he only gets $5000 on his dividends each...

I was looking a timeline of a certain stock, and I came across that in a certain time last month, the company paid out dividends and the dividend says 12 cents. The stock cost around 9 dollars, so in comparison 12 cents is miniscule. I also look around...

Got this email - please explain - I own 17 shares. Dear Shareholder: We are pleased to announce that on January 19, 2011 each holder of common stock of American International Group, Inc. (AIG) as of January 13, 2011 was issued a dividend in the form...

Can they continue to exist as due pref dividends with priorities over normal share dividends etc. OR do they have to be converted into normal shareholder loans or normal share dividends due?

I have no clue how to do this problem.. Help! 1. Welch Company has 5,000 share of $5 par, 3% preferred stock outstanding, and 25,000 shares of $2 par common stock outstanding. The preferred stock is cumulative and no dividends have been paid for the...

I own a share in my dads small company, I get paid £15 per month, except I literally just remembered I even had a share... My dad stopped paying my dividends around 2 years ago due to bad financial times with the business, but everything has been...

**My account at Fidelity is taxable** I have money in a Fidelity mutual fund called "cash reserves" The yield is 5.00% But the dividends this fund pays do not qualify for the lower tax rate I own shares in Bank Of America, this yields 5.30...