G E Stocks - What Is a Dividend?

A dividend is a payment that a company makes to distribute some of its revenue to its shareholders. It's usually not very much per share, but if you own a lot of shares, it starts to add up. G e stock wasn't doing so great when welsh first took over and was around 31 cents for a long time. This would be the beginning of 18 years of a climbing market, a bull market.