How to Determine Your Annual Dividend
If you are investing money in the stock market, you ultimately want to find that the amount of money your stocks are worth at the end of a year is higher than the amount the stocks were worth at the beginning of the year. In order to determine if your investments are paying off for you, you need to determine what your annual dividend is. Finding your annual dividend will help you make a wise decision about keeping the stock.
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Locate the four quarterly dividend statements released by the company in which you own stock. You can often find this information on a corporation's website; stock information is also available on various news sites.
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Add the four quarterly dividends. For example, if you own Microsoft stock and the four quarterly dividends were 16 cents, 23 cents, 9 cents and 31 cents, you would add these numbers to get a total of 79 cents. This is the amount that one share of stock pays out per year.
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Multiply the number you calculated in Step 2 by the number of shares of stock you own. For example, if the four quarterly dividends equals 79 cents and you own 500 shares of stock, your annual dividend would be $395.
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