What is the difference between

• Ice Dive

  7 Feb 09, 23:06

  ROE ( return on equities ) and Divident of a company ? How come they are so much different in the financial reports ?

   

  ( I suspect that there will be almost no reply to this thread ).

• maurizio13

  8 Feb 09, 11:51

   

  Google is your friend.

   

  Dividends are payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members. It is the portion of corporate profits paid out to stockholders.^[1] 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 (called retained earnings), or it can be paid to the shareholders as a dividend. Many corporations retain a portion of their earnings and pay the remainder as a dividend.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend

   

  Whatever a firm makes for the year is not necessary declared as dividends during the AGM.

   

   

• Ice Dive

  8 Feb 09, 14:53

  Now you are a better friend than a google ....

  Thanks ...

  Actually I have way more questions but I think the answers in google are not always correct due to pratice difference in different countries .