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Dividend Definition: What Is Dividend? A dividend is best defined as a reward to shareholders in the form of cash or stock. See Types of Dividends later in the article. Suppose you start a lemonade stand, your friends and family help you monetarily and become investors (shareholders) in your lemonade stand business. After a year …
Amazon recently announced, on March 9, 2022, that the company will soon be performing a 20-for-1 Amazon Stock Split. A few months ago Google Stock Split was in the news when Alphabet (Google’s parent company) announced on Feb 1, 2022, a 20-for-1 forward stock split. Let’s see how these events such as the Google Stock …
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[updated with new ETF summaries, Oct 2022] What is ETF? ETF or Exchange Traded Fund is a mini-portfolio of stocks (or bonds) that can be traded over a stock exchange like other securities such as stocks. For example, the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (symbol VOO) is made of 514 securities and it aims to mimic …
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ETF vs Mutual Fund ETF vs Mutual Fund – what should I invest in? the question looms in the mind of every investor. Here we will cover the key similarities and differences between ETFs and Mutual Funds so that you can decide what works better for you. You can also choose to have a hybrid …
Fractional Shares on Robinhood Robinhood recently introduced a new feature that allows investors to buy fractional shares. This is important because it allows more and more people to invest in companies whose share prices are very high, Amazon, for example, trades at more than $2400 as of June 2, 2020. If an investor has just …