SPDR® Portfolio S&P 500® High Dividend ETF (SPYD) offers a 4.07% yield but lacks a sophisticated selection process. SPYD's equal weighting and lack of quality filters result in inclusion of ...

Shareholder yield. Total payout. Total yield. These different labels represent the same thing—return of capital to shareholders. There are nuanced definitions to each, but the common thread is ...

Many investors, especially those using a cash flow approach to spending, prefer cash dividends. From the perspective of the classical financial theory, this behavior is an anomaly. In their 1961 paper ...

Many businesses have come a long way in terms of practicing conscious capitalism, but the truth is, a primary goal of publicly traded companies is to create value for their shareholders. And quarterly ...

This article was written by Sean Murphy, Equity Indices Product Manager and Steve Hou, PhD, Quantitative Researcher at Bloomberg. To be eligible for inclusion in the index, a company must be part of ...