Warner Chilcott A Buy For Dividend Lovers

Just like most financial data concerning stocks, dividend yield can be interpreted differently and has no one answer for what is the precise amount. Let us start off with the definition of dividend yield from Investopedia. A financial ratio that shows how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price. In the absence of any capital gains, the dividend yield is the return on investment for a stock. Dividend yield is calculated as follows: Read more: Investopedia The price per share is relatively straight-forward but even what is a dividend is not necessarily well defined. Take for example, Warner Chilcott Public Limited Company (WCRX) that paid a dividend of $4.00 for an ex-dividend date of August 29, 2012. Using the above calculations that would make the dividend yield at over 33% assuming a price of $12. But that would be wrong for dividend investors... Read more

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