But there’s another way shareholders can receive a portion of a company’s profit when that company has a surplus of revenue, usually on a quarterly basis: dividends. Here’s how they work and ...

"When you receive qualified dividends, you luck out on taxes," says Armine Alajian, founder of the Alajian Group, a Los Angeles-based accounting firm. "They're generally taxed at lower rates ...

For those investors, dividend investing can have tremendous appeal. Dividend investing involves investing in stocks, but with a particular focus on the regular distribution of a company’s income ...

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Aflac, Grainger, Target, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Emerson, Archer-Daniels, McDonald’s and T. Rowe Price rounded out the ...

Investors can sign up for a DRIP account with a dividend-paying company or join automatic programs at their brokerage to reinvest their dividends. Reinvested dividends are often taxable based on ...

That includes income in the form of REIT dividends. "REITs must payout at least 90% of their taxable income to shareholders," says Chris Burbach, co-founder and partner at Phoenix-based ...

Although there are some exceptions, such as dividend stocks that are held in a tax-deferred account like a Roth IRA or a 401(k) or dividends that are seen as a capital return and are not taxed ...