Talk:Dividend yield/Archives/2012

What is it?

The dividend yield is a term used among investors in the financial markets as an evaluation of the possible return on an equity investment, such as in the stock market.

No, no, no. It's NOT expectations. It's just a formula with a numerator and a denominator.--Jerryseinfeld 04:42, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Yield Calculation

The yield calculation for preferred shares as currently stated is incorrect. You cannot calculate yield of preferred shares with a bond calculator due to accrued interest : bonds got it, prefs don't. Additionally, while the sum of current yield and amortization of the discount/premium to redemption is a good approximation of the yield, it should be clearly stated that it is only a rough approximation - even when the amortization is calculated as carefully as suggested. See http://www.himivest.com/media/moneysaver_0607.pdf for a discussion (and link to a calculator) of preferred share yield calculation. JiHymas@himivest.com 05:26, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

"yield to maturity" ??

i REALLY don't believe stocks have a yield to maturity ! stocks represents claim in a company's assets so they don't mature unless they ware converted into bonds by the company, which rarely happens. So, please anyone who reads this correct me if i'm mistaken, or correct the main article cause it honestly doesn't make any sense to my modest knowledge on the subject, also i can't edit due to the fact that i'm new here, so i don't have any clue about the rules and polices, furthermore, i don't believe in doing something unless its 100% perfect.

thanks future editor :D —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.109.15.196 (talk) 09:07, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Misleading: Historical vs. Prospective Dividend Yield

Generally speaking the newspapers, google and yahoo take the latest quarterly dividend, multiply it by 4 and divide by price to obtain their reported yield. This metric will differ from the historical dividend yield, where the numerator is the latest 4 quarters of dividends. S&P reports the historical dividend yield for its indices, at least in Barron's.

The preceding can be verified by looking at the financials at yahoo or google. The newspaper dividend yield doesn't reflect a forecast of future dividends or a record of past dividends but rather something in between the two. Unfortunately I have not located a discussion of this issue so I'm unclear on the terminology. Would wikipedia consider this independent research? It's easily verifiable. Measure for Measure (talk) 19:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC) Edited section today. My edits apply to US issues: I'm not sure about UK or non-US conventions. If countries outside of the US don't use historical dividends in newspaper listings, then we should probably rewrite the entire section and eliminate or replace the images. Measure for Measure (talk) 21:40, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Why does common-share dividend yield use the current share price and not the price at which the share was bought? bananaketchup (talk) 02:30, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm learning about dividend yield.

I understand that the common-share dividend yield is the relationship of the annual dividend per common share and the current market price.

I understand that it is supposed to represent the investor's return on the investment.

But isn't yield better measured using the price at which the investor bought the stock?

Please respond in such a way that I get your message. Thanks. bananaketchup (talk) 02:30, 5 October 2011 (UTC)