dividends

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Wealthy individuals piled into private-credit funds—known as business-development companies, or BDCs—which invest in high-interest loans to midsize companies and distribute most of the income they collect to shareholders via dividends.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Investors love companies that grow dividends over time.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

“Now we think investors should view Strategy’s bitcoin holdings as providing a backstop for the funding of preferred dividends, but not the primary means of doing so,” he added.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

The 28-year-old, who celebrates his birthday on Tuesday, played aggressively from the baseline and it almost paid dividends as he looked to break for 5-4.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Thus both Luria and Delbruck hoped the Copenhagen lab would be the place where the combined techniques of chemistry and genetics might eventually yield real biological dividends.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson