FINANCEanincreasein thevalueofdividendspaidby acompanyeachyear:Thebusinessremainsbuoyantand the Boardexpectsdividendgrowthtocontinueatcurrentlevels.(Definition ofdividend growthfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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dividend growthHowever, this requires the use of earnings growth rather thandividendgrowth, which might be different.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However a company may elect to retain a portion of its earnings to produce incremental earnings and/ordividendgrowth.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These include the assumption of constant earnings and/ordividendgrowth, an unchanging divided policy, and a constant risk profile for the firm.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When the dividend payout ratio is the same, thedividendgrowthrate is equal to the earnings growth rate.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Like a bond, a straight preferred does not participate in future earnings anddividendgrowthof the company, or growth in the price of the common stock.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But the logdividendgrowthis not sufficiently volatile: its standard deviation is only 8%.From theCambridge English CorpusThe equity return (0.74 against 0.99 for the others), bond return, anddividendgrowthvolatility are better accounted for by this model.From theCambridge English CorpusThis figure summarizes the effects of modeling nonlinearities in thedividendgrowthrates on the equilibrium implications of the asset pricing model.From theCambridge English CorpusA similar result holds for thedividendgrowth.From theCambridge English CorpusSummary statistics (not reported) on realdividendgrowthrates indicate strong and statistically significant leptokurtosis, and negative skewness.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/dividend-growth##
