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Commerce · Q882

Financial Management

Graduate and Post Graduate · Commerce · question 882

Q882

Preferred stock dividends must be paid on common stock and must have

A.
fixed amount of dividends
Answer
B.
fixed amount of shares
C.
variable amount of dividends
D.
variable amount of shares

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Preferred stock dividends must be paid on common stock and must have fixed amount of dividends. Preferred dividends are the dividends that are accrued paid on a company's preferred stock. Any time a company pays dividends, preferred shareholders have priority over common shareholders, which means dividends must always be paid to preferred shareholders before they are paid to common shareholders.