Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Know your dividends’ source

Have you ever wondered about the dividend that you draw from an investment that where does it come from? It’s something that you should know in order to boost your investments in the long run. A dividend is a kind of share owner’s return which is exclusively at the judgment of the management conducting the particular investments.

Whether its equities or mutual funds, both the investment instruments offer dividends from the revenue or gains acquired by the individual firms or fund houses.

At some point of time, everyone wonders the way investment managers take charge of distributing bulky dividends sometimes, however are unable to dispense their dividend promises when investors desire them the most.

Although advanced revenue and excess reserves may give a signal as to the company’s dividend paying competence, a mutual funds ability of paying bonus could be determined from its Net Asset Value, which is also called the inherent value of the fund.

As far as a mutual fund is concerned, if its Net Asset Value is over Rs.10, it is usually capable of allocating dividends.

A company announces dividend either in cash or kind (share) structure. An investor would get cash based on the figures of shares they hold when a cash dividend is declared. On the contrary, when dividend is dispersed in kind form, as an alternative to cash, the same investor now obtains his return in the form of extra share.

For instance, you are an investor who purchased 1,000 shares of a firm. Now the company in question announces a dividend of Rs.0.25 per share. Let’s suppose, the investor receive Rs.250 as his remuneration when a company announces cash dividend. Though, on the contrary, in case the company announces a stock dividend of 0.2 that would mean that for every share held, 0.2 of a share is paid to the shareowner, the same investor would now hold 1200 shares. Mutual funds dividends also operate in a similar way. Think about a fund announcing dividend of 20% when its Net Asset Value is Rs.12. You would receive Rs.1,000 as dividend contemplation if at the time you owned 500 units.
Thus, that’s how your dividends are churned out.

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