Freebase (1.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition: Dividend. Dividends are payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members. It is the portion of corporate profits paid out to stockholders. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, that money can be put to two uses: it can either be re-invested in the business, or it can be distributed to shareholders.
short list [BACK TO TOP] Meaning: A list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen
Learn How to Short Stocks. To short a stock you are betting that the value of a stock will go down. Shorting stocks is the act of selling something that you do not own. In order to do this you have to borrow the shares of stock from your broker.hey do not realize that you can make money when stocks go down. They think that if a stock goes up, then this is good. If a stock goes down, then this is bad. Wrong! It depends on which side (long or short) of the market you are on. I think Wall Street really doesn't want the public to know about shorting stocks.