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Originally Posted by DylanScores
New to investing particularly stocks. How does dividend works? Do they send you a cheque? Sorry for the newbie question. Thank you.
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Through most brokers they will let you choose between re-investing the dividend and getting more shares (or units in the case of an ETF) or take it as cash. It will be deposited into your investment account.
This is a good read:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dividend.asp
Everyone was a newbie at some point.