final dividend

American  

[fahy-nuhl div-i-dend] / ˈfaɪ nəl ˈdɪv ɪˌdɛnd /

noun

• final dividends
  plural

1. Finance. a dividend paid to shareholders from annual profits calculated at the close of a fiscal year.

2. Finance. a final amount paid to creditors or investors at the close of proceedings for insolvency or liquidation of assets.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• final dividends
  plural

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final dividend

Harmony declared a final dividend of 47 cents a share.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Directors declared a final dividend of 99 cents a share, taking the miner’s annual payout to $1.72 a share—its highest in four years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Suncorp also said it would pay a A$0.10/share special dividend on top of its A$0.52/share ordinary final dividend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

EQT said Thursday that accepting shareholders of the U.K. testing specialist will get 60 pounds in cash a share and keep the final dividend of 107.70 pence a share.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

A final dividend of 9½d. in the pound is announced in connection with the bankruptcy of Messrs. Harvey and Hudsons, bankers, Norwich, who failed for upwards of £1,700,000, in July, 1870. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie