The shares pay a 3 percent dividend, or $12,000 a year.

The preferred shares will pay 9.76 percent annual interest.

As it turned out, the shares eventually paid worthwhile dividends.

Those shares will pay no dividends for five years to conserve cash.

Such a share might cost $25 now and pay no annual dividend, but be redeemable in eight years for $50.

Some, especially people who have recently been laid off, may need to sell shares to pay mortgages or other bills.

Its shares pay an annual dividend rate of $2.56 a share and yield slightly more than 15 percent.

The preferred shares would pay stock dividends for the first five years and cash from then on.

If it's big enough so that our share will pay for Crin's operation.

Most people sell shares immediately to pay the taxes, as the couple had done in the past.