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A stock dividend is actually a part of corporation bookkeeping. A stock split is different from a stock dividend in that no adjustment is made to the capital; instead, the number of shares representing the capital increase. The cash value of an individual share, therefore, decreases in proportion to the size of the stock split.
Dividend Growth Rate. Because, as with bonds, a big dividend could mean the stockâs share price has recently fallen, making the dividend yield bigger, without an increase in the actual dollar amount of the dividend. You see, the dividend growth rate is the average rate of growth a stockâs dividend has experienced for a specific period of time.