Melissa Horton is a financial literacy professional. She has 10+ years of experience in the financial services and planning industry. Investors and corporate accounting professionals look to ...

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 ...

Shareholder value represents the return that shareholders get from a company’s profit growth and increase in stock price. It's a key metric investors use to gauge a company's success. Companies can ...

When a company focuses on maximizing shareholder value, it’s actively working to increase the wealth of its shareholders. This could mean boosting profits, increasing dividends or driving up the stock ...

Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, moving directly to appeal to shareholders with an all-cash offer that it says represents better value than the ...

Shareholder activism is rising around the globe and at home. The practice made headlines recently when Disney fended off activist investors and locally in South Africa when petrochemicals giant Sasol ...