Dividend yield

Annual dividends per share divided by the share price.

How to read it

An unusually high yield often means the market doubts the dividend will last.

How to use it

Income now; read it with the payout ratio for safety.

In Kereon

Kereon shows this figure as its data vendor publishes it and does not recompute it, so the vendor's exact inputs — which period's earnings, which balance sheet, which adjustments — are not visible here. The calculation above is the standard definition.

Also called: dividend yield, div yield, portfolio yield.

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