With most dividends, you get the dividend per share. So if you owned 20 shares?
20 * Dividend Amount = what's due you.
However, remember with dividends there is a "
Be in by ___" date. This is called the Ex-dividend date. This means that you must be in by that date, to have the right to a dividend.
The $3.25 is almost double what Frontline usually pays, and the ex-dividend date was 10-10-2007. So this dividend has come and gone (
It's being paid out of the company today, which will probably show up to shareholders accounts in the next week or so). But they regularly pay around / approximately $1.50 every quarter, per share; which is higher than most of the industry by quite a bit.
So if you bought 20 shares? Then the next time the payment date rolls around, you'd be paid (by way of an example), 20 * $1.50 = $30.00 for owning your Frontline shares. The quarter after that, another $30.00 - and so on - according to whatever Frontline sets the dividend at on declaration day. I forget whether or not Frontline has a DRIP program (Dividend Reinvestment Plan) or not; I'll have to look that one up.
Here's a good article on
Dividends from Wikipedia. Has a lot of good information regarding the dates, and what they mean.