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Stock Dividends: It refers to the payment of dividends by a company to its existing shareholders, in the form of additional shares rather than cash. Stock dividends are paid, when there is an inadequate cash available in the company.
Cash dividends: The amount of cash provided by a corporation out of its distributable profits to its shareholders as a return for the amount invested by them is referred as cash dividends.
Stock Splits: It is a method of increasing the total number of outstanding shares thereby, reducing the market price of each share, however, keeping the corporation’s total market value constant.
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