Corporate Actions are events implemented by a company. These actions have to be approved by the company's board of directors, and shareholders are empowered to vote on specified proposed corporate actions.

Corporate actions affect preferred shareholders, common shareholders and bondholders.

Shareholders are required to respond to certain corporate actions such as dividends, right issues and merger and acquisitions cash offers.  

For those who would like to know where to access companies' corporate actions and how to decipher deadlines such as Ex-Date, Record Date and Date Payable, please refer to the previous post.  

Dividends are distributions from a portion of the company's