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considering investing in chn as a dividend stock
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chn is a closed-end fund. chn actually pays out three types of distributions: in the case of chn, they appear to be paying yearly.  the most recent dividend, with exdate of 18 dec 2014, consisted of $3.4669 of long-term capital gains and $0.2982 cash dividend. prior to that, the dividend with exdate of 19 dec 2013 consisted of $2.8753 long-term capital gains and $0.4387 cash dividend. for a standard dividend yield you typically would not expect short-term and long-term capital events to be included in a yield calculation, as these events really only occur in relation to a fund rebalancing (changing its investments) and are not really due to the actual performance of the fund in any way.  most free sites that provide dividend information do not make a distinction on the dividend type. data source: premium data full disclosure: i am a co-owner of premium data/norgate.
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