This refers to the idea that the price of a dividend (a corporate payment made by a corporation to its shareholders) signals positive future performance of the company.
Customarily, it is referred to as a "claim".
Shareholders are actually owners of the company in which they hold stock in. All decisions should be made with the consideration of maximizing shareholders wealth. It is not to just increase the size of the company or to see that executives get rich but rather to maximize the return for shareholders/owners of the corporation.
No country owns the Apple company. It is based in California in the USA but is owned by its many shareholders.
Ex Gratia means "by favor". In legal terms, this is a payment made by a company or employer when no payment is obligated. The payment is not made because a person is employed by the company and is unconnected to the services the company provides.
The dividends encourage the people to buy shares in the company as they would receive a share of the profits made by business they invested in.
A fixed payment which is made annually is called an annuity.
A dividend.
Paid up capital stock is that share capital for which investors or shareholders has made full payment to acquire them.
A regular payment made to a person after they retire is called a pension
Yes. If the payment is made to the finnance company.
All cash payments made by the company.