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Wayne.B Wayne.B is offline
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On Thu, 22 May 2014 01:55:01 -0400, wrote:

Dividends are profit, after everyone is paid and all expenses are
recovered.


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Technically speaking that is not necessarily true. Dividends are
usually a cash distribution to shareholders but that does not imply
that the corporation is currently profitable although that is most
often the case.

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